The gold spot purchase channels are:
1. Trading spot and futures gold
Spot gold is mainly delivered after the transaction is completed or within a few days. Transaction method. Spot gold is an international investment product, and trading platforms are established by various gold companies. There are many trading platforms in London, New York, and Hong Kong. In China, the main one is the Shanghai Gold Exchange, where investors can conduct spot gold transactions. The Shanghai Gold Exchange implements T+0 clearing and accounting of funds, and T+1 settlement and payment. Futures are another way to correspond to spot goods. What is traded is a "contract". Gold futures are the same as stock futures and commodity futures, except that the trading object becomes "gold". You need to open an account with a futures company, and then Make a transaction. Futures adopts a margin trading system, which can enlarge investment leverage and allow two-way investment (you can buy up or down). It is a high-risk investment. Friends with high risk tolerance who do not have professional investment capabilities are not recommended. Play futures. Realization: T+0 trading, positions can be closed and liquidated at any time.
Gold spot trading refers to physical delivery, such as gold and coupons, while spot gold trading is only a virtual project transaction and does not carry out physical delivery.
2. Buy "paper gold"
"Paper gold", as the name suggests, is not physical gold, but just a piece of "paper", which is an agreement. , in fact, virtualizes physical gold and turns it into an investment product that is more convenient for buyers and sellers to deliver, eliminating the troublesome process of physical gold transactions. Nowadays, many banks have paper gold business. Customers ask the bank to open a "gold passbook account", and then they can deposit funds through the gold account and conduct gold transactions. The transaction price is based on the physical gold that is quoted daily and does not occur in itself. Withdrawal and delivery, customers just earn the difference in gold price fluctuations.
Liquidation of paper gold: It is relatively simple to realize paper gold, just sell it in the paper gold trading account.
3. Purchase gold accumulation
Similar to the operation of fund fixed investment, investors need to set the deposit amount, deposit period, and choose the deposit cycle. The system will automatically purchase it. Once set, Set a fixed investment plan, immediately freeze the deposit amount from the investor's capital account, and implement the deposit plan from the next trading day.