Unlike the stock market, futures trading makes money when it goes up and loses money when it goes down.
(1) As long as you hold a long position when the futures target (including commodity futures and stock index futures) rises, you will make money and hold a short position, and you will lose money.
(2) When futures targets (including commodity futures and stock index futures) fall, if you hold short positions, you will make money, while holding long positions, you will lose money.
Therefore, in fact, as long as you can correctly estimate the ups and downs of the subject matter, whether it is up or down, you can make money.
In addition, another difference between futures and stock trading is that the margin system in futures trading can have great financial leverage. For example, if a deposit of 65,438+00% is implemented, the maximum deposit is 65,438+00 times. When the financial leverage is exhausted, the risk and return are 65,438+00 times higher than normal stock trading. Therefore, compared with stocks, the risks and benefits of futures are much greater than those of stocks. Basically only professional investors can bear it.