Gold futures are contracts that are delivered at a specific transaction price at a specific time. The contract has certain standards. One of the characteristics of futures is that investors deposit a deposit in futures economic institutions in order to finally buy a certain amount of gold.

Generally speaking, buyers and sellers of gold futures sell and buy back the same number of contracts as before before the contract expiration date to close their positions, without actually delivering real money and silver. The profit or loss of each transaction is equal to the difference between two contracts in opposite directions. This kind of gold trading is also what people usually call speculation.

Gold futures contract trading only needs a small amount of margin as the investment cost, which has great leverage, that is, a small amount of funds promotes large transactions, so gold futures trading is also called margin trading.

Introduction to gold futures trading Note 2: How to do gold futures?

Gold and futures account procedures need to be handled in futures companies, and the head offices and business departments of futures companies all over the country can handle the account opening procedures for gold futures.

Gold futures are commodity futures, and the account opening procedures are relatively simple, not as complicated as stock index futures. You only need to provide your ID card and bank card, and then fill in the corresponding information and contract to open an account.

In terms of settlement methods, the settlement in the futures market is a debt-free settlement system on the same day, which actually means clearing accounts every day. For example, today, the price of gold drops by 3,000 yuan. After the futures close on that day, the loss of 3,000 yuan will be removed from the available funds in the account, and vice versa.

Introduction to gold futures trading Note 3: Introduction to gold futures trading

To some extent, the investment group in the gold futures market is relatively small and requires high specialization, which can be reflected in several aspects. The first is the customer's own risk tolerance, that is, how big the risk tolerance is, because the futures market is a high-risk and high-yield market, which is only suitable for customers with relatively high risk tolerance.

In addition, there is a point in customer demand. If the purpose of investing in gold is to profit from the rising price of gold, it will be better and safer for small and medium-sized investors to choose other types of investment. If investors want to profit from the fall in the price of gold, gold futures is the only or only choice.

Gold futures trading rules

Gold futures belong to a variety of futures market, and the trading rules are similar to many commodity futures.

There are mainly the following systems:

First, there are futures contracts for trading and they are standardized contracts. This contract will stipulate the location, attributes and quantity of gold trading. In short, there will be specific provisions in all aspects except price.

Second, the deposit system, the deposit is the basic financial guarantee for signing the contract;

The third is due delivery, that is, after the contract expires, it will correspond to the physical gold one by one;

Fourth, compulsory liquidation system, T+0 trading system, two-way trading system, etc.