1. Basic guarantee fund for futures: In the futures market, traders can participate in the trading of futures contracts only by paying a small amount of funds according to a certain proportion of the price of futures contracts as the financial guarantee for the performance of futures contracts. This kind of funds is the futures margin.
2. Maintain margin: When the futures contract price changes, the customer must maintain the minimum margin amount in his margin account.
Two. Introduction of basic futures guarantee fund and maintenance guarantee fund;
1, the futures margin, especially the financial futures margin, should not be too high, and a certain percentage of the margin should be increased on the basis of 8% charged by the exchange to ensure risk control, so the futures margin ratio of the upcoming Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index is most likely 8%.
2. In the exchange managed by the maintenance margin system, if your loss is small and your margin amount is reduced, it is still higher than the maintenance margin limit, there is no need to add a price change margin. Only when your loss reaches a level lower than the maintenance margin, you need to add a price change margin. Make the account funds equal to the initial margin level, and the additional funds are called variable margin.