Most people who ask this question are investors who have never traded futures. What a big misunderstanding! Why is there the concept of capital threshold? Because most stock traders think that futures are stock index futures, and the threshold is 500,000, which is not wrong. However, stock index futures are just one of many futures varieties and belong to financial futures.
In addition, there are many commodity futures. Listed and traded on Shanghai Commodity Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange respectively.
It is suggested that novice investors interested in futures must pay attention to the following three points when entering the futures market:
First, day trading. For friends who have just entered the futures market, they think that futures is a T+0 market, and they can buy more for a while and sell short for a while. Do more than a dozen transactions in a minute, and you can pocket all the money in the market in a short time. This is a misunderstanding. There is a handling fee for futures. Intraday trading thinks it needs to pay a high handling fee.
Second, heavy positions or Man Cang operations. Although this is a shortcut to get rich, it often brings you pain, torture and doubts about life; Even quickly eliminated by the market. Futures is a leveraged transaction, 10 times, 20 times. A mistake in a heavy position may lead to the consequences of losing everything. Futures investment should not be too radical, slow is fast!
Third, don't admit your mistakes. Just now, I talked about the heavy stance or the Man Cang deal, but it's not good. How about a light warehouse? This is of course what we admire. However, if you are experiencing losses and you are still dead, if you don't admit your mistake, your position is light and the consequences are very serious. Futures are different from stocks, not to mention the saying that stocks have been cut. Futures contracts have an effective date of trading and must be closed at maturity. The direction is wrong, and watching it may bring the cost of holding positions and losses of more than 3 times. The above three points are equally important. As long as you have the means, you don't have to be afraid of the failure of the transaction. The error rate of 30%-40% is normal. Stop loss controls the risk and then come back.