1. capital requirements: within five trading days before an individual investor applies for a stock index futures account, the available capital in the account is 500,000 yuan or more.

2. Testing requirements: Individual investors need to conduct a basic knowledge test of futures trading before the stock index futures account. They can only open an account if their test scores are 80 or above.

3. Experience requirements: Investors need to have some stock market investment experience before futures account.

4. Other requirements: Individual investors shall not have bad credit records or violate relevant laws and regulations when opening stock index futures accounts.