First, avoid investment risks.

If investors are not optimistic about the stock market, they can short through the hedging function of stock index futures, which can achieve the purpose of causing a panic decline in the stock market without throwing out stocks;

Second, reduce the volatility of the stock market.

Stock index futures help to restrain irrational fluctuations in the stock market and reduce the monthly average amplitude and daily average amplitude of the stock market. For example, in the five years before the introduction of stock index futures, the monthly average amplitude of Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 index was 14.9% and the daily average amplitude was 2.5 1%, while in the following five years, the monthly average amplitude was 10.7% and the daily average amplitude was 65438.

Third, enrich investment strategies.

It provides investors with a risk hedging tool. We all know that the consistency of stock market trading strategy is relatively high. Stock index futures can enrich different investment strategies, enrich the current investment market, help investors achieve long-term stable income goals, and provide diversified financial channels.

However, the wealth manager would like to remind everyone here that the t+0 system of stock index futures trading also has the characteristics of margin leveraged trading, so its risk is greater than that of ordinary stock trading. Novices must operate under special guidance to avoid risks and obtain benefits to a greater extent.

As for which index to look at in stock index futures, here is an introduction. Stock index futures are also a kind of futures, which are divided into financial futures and commodity futures.

Seeing this, everyone should know what role stock index futures have. Want to know more about investment knowledge, please pay attention to us!