For full-time futures trading, how much money you can earn is determined by many different factors, including your education, experience, industry you are engaged in, expected industry, economic development level and so on. These are just some factors that will determine your minimum income level.
For "how much can futures trading earn?" It is difficult to give an exact data for this problem. Just like full-time futures trading, how much you can earn is uncertain. Some futures traders are very successful, and of course some fail.
So, what factors will affect how much money you earn in the futures market? Here are some of the factors we have listed:
start-up fund
Regardless of risk management, trading strategy and specific market, the most important thing is how much start-up capital you have.
Your start-up capital plays a key role in how much money you can earn in futures trading.
Have you ever heard that someone changed the start-up capital of 100 into 100000? Maybe you have heard of it, but there are few such examples, and you don't know the whole market situation.
Start-up capital is very important for futures trading or trading in other markets such as foreign exchange. Having a good start-up fund can help you achieve your goals better, help you manage risks, and help you improve your trading system and position management.
Having good start-up capital can help you to have enough funds to meet the margin requirements when doing futures trading without being told to ask for additional margin. For many futures traders, 10000 USD is a good starting point. Although 10000 dollars is a little small, you can make considerable profits through leverage.
Risk tolerance
There is a rule in trading: don't trade with more than 1%. In other words, if you have $65,438+00,000, you can only risk trading with $65,438+000 at most. Of course, it also depends on the level of leverage you use.
In the futures market, you may already know the margin system and the unit of price change, which all depend on the futures contract you trade.
If you trade some of the most common futures contracts, such as e-mini s&; P500 futures (Standard & Poor's 500 electronic mini contract), the margin requirement of a standard contract is only $400, and the price change per unit is $65,438 +02.5. That is to say, in the case of no leverage and risk tolerance of 1%, for a standard S&P 500 electronic mini-contract, your maximum loss should be two points (8 variable units).
If your risk tolerance becomes stronger, you can allocate $500 (5% of the funds) for each transaction. In this case, your biggest loss is 10 point (40 variable units).
As you can see, the risk you are willing to take affects the outcome of your transaction (of course, you must ensure that the subsequent price changes are beneficial to you).
Trading strategy
Trading strategy is as important as risk management. If you press the "buy/sell" button without a plan, you will get nothing.
Many professional futures traders will spend months or even years perfecting their trading strategies, and more importantly, test these strategies under different trading conditions.
Trading strategy can help you to know your risk tolerance, and let you know when to quit to reduce losses and when to take profits when the market trend is not in line with your expectations. Based on your understanding of your trading system, you should also know when to trade and when to wait and see.
The time you spend trading or studying.
Another important factor that determines how much money you earn is: How much time do you spend on futures trading?
For most people, they tend to do futures trading as a part-time job, and they usually find that how much money they earn depends on the trading method. You can use band trading, which means you have to hold futures trading positions for a period of time, or you can only trade for an hour or two, and make sure that all your intraday positions are closed (which means you have no positions before the end of the day).
At present, there are some examples of traders profiting from part-time futures trading, and there are also some examples of traders profiting from band trading. Therefore, you must not mistakenly think that it takes a lot of time to make a lot of money.
When we talk about the time you spend trading, we don't mean that you have to trade. You can take the time to learn more market information, such as fundamentals, or you need to wait patiently to execute the transaction at the right time.
There are many valuable resources and information on the Internet. You can find all the information about the futures market. Some traders spend 90% of their time studying the market and only spend the remaining 10% of their time executing the trade.
Like any career, you need to spend time learning, training skills and putting them into practice. The more you know about the market you trade, the less likely you are to make mistakes.
The following is an example of futures trading
Based on the factors mentioned above, the following examples will help you make a profit in futures trading:
Capital: 10000 USD.
Risk tolerance: 4% ($400) per transaction.
Ideal Trading Asset: Standard & Poor's 500 Electronic Mini Futures Contract
Margin requirement: $400
Available deposit: $9,600.
Risk/reward ratio: 1:2
Maximum stop loss per unit: 32 units ($400)
Take profit (risk/return ratio 1:2) Maximum unit quantity: 64 units (US$ 800)
Now suppose you trade for an hour or two every day and trade with the above setting requirements. You trade 18 days a month, or trade 18 times a month, and your winning rate is 60%. In other words, you have a profit of 1 1 transaction and a loss of 9 transactions.
Cumulative profit in income statement: 1 1 x 800 = 8800 USD.
Cumulative loss of loss sheet: 9 x 400 = 3600 USD.
Net profit: 8800-3600 = 5200 USD (profit rate above 50%).
The above figures look good, but we must be clear that the above fixed variables are all set by us, and other factors are not taken into account, such as break-even trading, closing positions before the price reaches the stop loss, brokerage commission and 0.25 unit change.
Of course, you can increase your start-up capital or trade two or more contracts at a time, which will increase your profit rate (and increase your risk of loss).
The above example shows that the profit potential of the futures market is very large, and only 10000 USD is needed for start-up, but at the same time, you should always pay attention to your trading strategy.
In the above example, it is particularly worth mentioning that you will find that the funds needed for trading play an important role in both risk management and trading strategy, and will also run through the three together to improve profitability.
How much you can earn depends on yourself!
Many traders think that once they know something about trading, they can start making money. However, like many other things in life, learning is a gradual process. Many successful traders understand this, so they try to learn something new every day. Successful traders will also practice their trading strategies a lot to learn more about the market.
If you don't have the enthusiasm to keep learning, but simply consider some known things and satisfy the status quo, you can't make money in trading, and conceit will eventually destroy you.
The potential for profit is unlimited, but you can only do this if your trading system, risk tolerance and trading discipline are good enough. Nevertheless, trading in the market, especially the futures market, is very profitable. As long as you persist, you will continue to make profits after a while.
A wise man once said: No profession is as dynamic as trading. To put it figuratively, in those years of trading, you built a wall every day, pulled it down before sunset, and repeated the first day's work the next day.
This is a transaction, which provides you with an opportunity to make money freely, but at the same time you will also face corresponding risks. If you don't have a good attitude towards it-the most important thing is to realize that losses are also part of the game, it is very difficult to make profits continuously.
Finally, add a summary: failed traders only know how to chase profits, and excellent traders are good at managing risks.