Futures is a kind of financial investment, which is divided into commodity futures and stock index futures. Commodity futures have no capital threshold. You just need to have goods or have money to buy goods. However, in order to ensure the safety of funds, it is usually necessary to pay a certain margin, and it is enough to pay a first-hand margin according to different varieties. The minimum threshold of stock index futures is 500,000. Let's look at the minimum entry capital of futures. 1. Is there a capital threshold for futures?

There are two kinds of futures, commodity futures and stock index futures, with different capital thresholds:

1, commodity futures

Commodity futures accounts do not require funds, but only need to have goods or have money to buy goods, but in order to ensure the safety of funds, it is usually necessary to pay a certain margin.

2. Stock index futures

The threshold of stock index futures account is 500,000, which requires investors to have some basic knowledge of stock index futures, and personal credit has no record of bad behavior. In addition, they also need to have at least 65,438+00 trading days and more than 20 trading records, or investors need to have more than 65,438+00 futures-related trading records within three years.

Second, what is the minimum entry capital for futures?

Futures is a high-risk investment product. Many friends who don't know about futures may think that the entry threshold for futures is relatively high and they need more funds. But in fact, except for crude oil futures and stock index futures, there is no threshold limit for other futures.

Of course, although there is no capital threshold, futures is a margin system and leveraged trading, and there are still certain capital requirements. Generally speaking, according to different varieties, it is enough to pay the first-hand margin: for example, peanut futures, the exchange margin of 8%, about 3800 yuan can buy one hand, soda ash futures trading margin of 9%, about 5400 yuan can buy one hand. The margin of futures varieties is different, and you can choose according to your own financial situation.

For friends who want to do futures, it is recommended to prepare enough funds to resist the losses caused by market fluctuations. Novice operation is recommended to be less than half a warehouse, which is safer. For example, corn futures have a margin of 2000 yuan, so it is more reasonable to prepare 4000 yuan for the original operation.

3. How to calculate the futures margin?

There are three calculation formulas for futures margin:

1, commodity futures margin = transaction price * transaction unit * margin ratio.

2. Stock index futures margin = transaction price * contract multiplier * margin ratio.

3. Bond futures margin = bond futures contract value * bond ratio = contract price * (contract face value/100 yuan) * bond ratio = contract price * 10000* bond ratio.