The characteristics of futures trading:
1. Bidirectional.
One of the biggest differences between futures trading and stock market is that futures can be traded in both directions, and futures can be long or short. When the price rises, you can buy low and sell high, and when the price falls, you can sell high and buy low. Going long can make money, and shorting can also make money, so there is no bear market in futures.
2. Low cost.
Futures trading countries do not levy stamp duty and other taxes, and the only cost is the transaction fee. The procedures of the three domestic exchanges are about two ten thousandths or three ten thousandths, plus the additional fees of brokers, and the unilateral handling fee is less than one thousandth of the transaction amount.
3. leverage.
Leverage principle is the charm of futures investment. Futures market transactions do not need to pay all the funds, and domestic futures transactions only need to pay 5% margin to obtain future trading rights. Due to the use of margin, the original market has been enlarged ten times. Assuming that the daily limit of copper price closes on a certain day (the daily limit in futures is only 3% of the settlement price of the previous trading day), the operation is correct. The return on capital is as high as 60%(3%÷5%), which is six times the daily limit of the stock market.
4. Double the chances.
Futures is a "T+0" transaction, which makes your capital use to the extreme. After grasping the trend, you can close your position at any time.
Precautions for futures:
1. Learn the basics of futures before you practice.
Now that many investors have turned to domestic futures, you can learn about these four major exchanges: China Financial Futures Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange. Secondly, we should understand the system of futures trading market, the contract of trading products, the rules of futures trading, and the most important thing is futures fees, such as margin, charging standards, calculation methods and so on. These are the basics, and you can use simulation exercises after learning.
2. Choose futures companies carefully.
It is very important to choose a reliable and professional futures company before the introduction of futures trading. After all, the right choice will not only help investors to trade more smoothly, but also get some value-added services. At present, domestic futures companies are full settlement members of the five major exchanges, and can act as agents for various domestic futures transactions and provide other services. Some futures companies can also provide operational advice from analysts with ten years' experience.
3. Have the psychological quality of correctly treating profit and loss.
In the operation of futures trading, everyone must hope that they can continue to make profits and are unwilling to stop losses in time, which will eventually lead to unbearable consequences.
When you suffer losses, you should act decisively, stop trading and reduce losses. A common mistake made by many novices is to hold on to losing positions, thinking that the market will reverse and unwilling to lighten up. When their positions are profitable, they go out of the market too early, and they are too eager to get the initial profit, thus losing the opportunity to further increase their profits. We should have a correct psychological quality in dealing with profit and loss.
4, the overall view, long-term vision.
Experienced analysts emphasize that we should pay attention to the whole process of trading, not just whether we make money. Losses are inevitable in futures trading, and losses are also an indispensable part of the trading process. In the process of trading, it is not a good phenomenon that the mood rises and falls. We must pay attention to the whole process of the transaction calmly. Investors can't predict the trend of the market, but they can control the trading process. The biggest problem for novices in the futures market is to pay attention to making money and losing money, not the trading process. In fact, there are still many places that investors need to understand and master slowly. We must have a global vision and a long-term vision. Only in this way can we decide to be Kun.