1. Futures and stocks can be traded freely at different times.
Futures can be traded during the day or at night.
But stocks can only be traded during the day, not at night like futures.
2. Futures and stocks can be traded freely at different times every day.
There is no limit to the number of times futures can be traded every day. How many times you want to trade futures every day is your freedom.
The number of times a stock can be traded freely every day is limited, and there is only one chance to trade freely every day. After trading once, you can only wait until the next day if you want to trade again.
Extended data:
First, stocks and futures have different rights.
Futures only have rights to the terms in the contract, and the scope of rights is relatively narrow.
Shareholders can become shareholders of the company by holding shares after buying the company's tickets. After becoming a shareholder of the company, you can enjoy many rights, such as attending various meetings of the company as a shareholder. If they don't want to attend the company meeting in person, they can entrust others to attend the company meeting instead of themselves. Shareholders have certain voting rights in the decision-making of company affairs, and they can express their opinions and opinions on company affairs. That is to say, the more shares they can buy, the more shares they hold, and the higher their voice in the company.
Second, the risks and returns of stocks and futures are different.
In fact, the risk of stocks is still far less than that of futures. If futures make mistakes because they don't make the right decision, then futures trading can only end in losses and no other opportunities can be found.
However, stocks are different from futures. Even if the stock starts to lose money, it may turn over against the wind because of the correct decision, so the risk of the stock is not as big as that of futures.
In a word, futures and stocks are very risky for us ordinary people. You must be cautious when you want to enter these two markets.
Third, Futures, called futures in English, are completely different from spot, which is actually tradable goods (commodities). Futures are mainly not commodities, but standardized tradable contracts based on some popular products such as cotton, soybeans and oil and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, the subject matter can be commodities (such as gold, crude oil and agricultural products) or financial instruments.
The delivery date of futures can be one week later, one month later, three months later or even one year later.
A contract or agreement to buy or sell futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are bought and sold is called the futures market. Investors can invest or speculate in futures.
Four main characteristics
The commodity variety, trading unit, contract month, margin, quantity, quality, grade, delivery time and delivery place of futures contracts are all established and standardized, and the only variable is price. The standards of futures contracts are usually designed by futures exchanges and listed by national regulatory agencies.
Futures contracts are concluded under the organization of futures exchanges and have legal effect. Prices are generated through public bidding in the trading hall of the exchanges. Most foreign countries adopt public bidding, while our country adopts computer trading.
The performance of futures contracts is guaranteed by the exchange, and private transactions are not allowed.
Futures contracts can fulfill or cancel their contractual obligations through the settlement of spot or hedging transactions.