When the market environment begins to deteriorate, retail investors on the disk often start to consider buying stock index futures and other products. So how do ordinary retail investors buy futures? How to operate specifically? In this regard, please look down. How do retail investors buy futures? There are three ways for retail investors to buy futures: the first is to open relevant stock index futures accounts and buy from them. The second is to borrow money from futures accounts and then operate. The third is to conduct futures operations through some companies such as fund-raising companies. In this regard, there are still many ways for retail investors to buy futures. Of course, the risk of futures is also relatively large, and retail investors need to assess their risk tolerance. Futures are all leveraged transactions, so they are different from stocks. In futures trading, the market only needs a little fluctuation to achieve huge profits and losses in a short time, and the capital requirements of futures are generally more than tens of thousands of yuan. Therefore, when buying futures, retail investors should prepare at least 50,000 yuan to100,000 yuan in their accounts, and psychologically have the intention of total loss, that is, the risk of R5 level. To sum up, this is how retail investors buy futures.