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What does the size of futures positions mean?
Futures position means that we have trading funds in the process of futures trading, which means that we have positions. Open position means that the funds in our account are the total amount, and the margin deducted during the transaction is also the size of the open position.

For example, the current account has 654.38 million yuan of funds, and then trading a product costs 50,000 yuan. At this time, it is 50% of the positions, 50% of the positions, that is, half of the positions.

The bigger the position, the greater the income, but the greater the risk, the smaller the position and the smaller the risk, which has a certain relationship.

For example: 65,438+10,000 yuan of funds, if the transaction margin is deducted from 80,000-90,000 yuan, this means that this heavy transaction is very risky, because if there is a loss, the remaining account funds will have no geographical risk, which will lead to risks such as forced liquidation.

For example: 65,438+10,000 yuan, if the transaction margin of 20,000-30,000 yuan is deducted, it is a light warehouse transaction. Although the income is less than 80,000-90,000, the risk is also small. If there is a loss, you can hedge the profit and loss by backhand.

Futures, whose English name is futures, is completely different from spot. Spot is actually a tradable commodity. Futures are mainly not commodities, but standardized tradable contracts based on some popular products such as cotton, soybeans and oil and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, the subject matter can be commodities (such as gold, crude oil and agricultural products) or financial instruments.

The delivery date of futures can be one week later, one month later, three months later or even one year later.

A contract or agreement to buy or sell futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are bought and sold is called the futures market. Investors can invest or speculate in futures.

main feature

The commodity variety, trading unit, contract month, margin, quantity, quality, grade, delivery time and delivery place of futures contracts are all established and standardized, and the only variable is price. The standards of futures contracts are usually designed by futures exchanges and listed by national regulatory agencies.

Futures contracts are concluded under the organization of futures exchanges and have legal effect. Prices are generated through public bidding in the trading hall of the exchanges. Most foreign countries adopt public bidding, while our country adopts computer trading.

The performance of futures contracts is guaranteed by the exchange, and private transactions are not allowed.

Futures contracts can fulfill or cancel their contractual obligations through the settlement of spot or hedging transactions.

condition

Minimum fluctuation price: refers to the minimum fluctuation range of the unit price of futures contracts.

Maximum fluctuation limit of daily price: (also known as price limit) means that the trading price of futures contracts shall not be higher or lower than the prescribed price limit within a trading day, and the quotation exceeding this price limit will be deemed invalid and cannot be traded.

Delivery month of futures contract: refers to the delivery month stipulated in the contract.

Last trading day: refers to the last trading day when a futures contract is traded in the contract delivery month.

Futures contract trading unit "hand": Futures trading must be carried out in an integer multiple of "hand", and the number of commodities contracted in each hand of different trading varieties should be specified in the futures contract of that variety.