2. The difference between gold futures and gold extension: delivery period: futures have a fixed delivery date; There is no fixed delivery date for gold extension, and you can always hold positions.
It is understood that gold deferred trading is commonly known as gold quasi-futures. At present, the exchange implements a down payment system of 10%, which can delay delivery. This is equivalent to the margin of gold futures is 10%. The difference is that there is no delivery date. Investors can hold their positions permanently, or make a delivery declaration and apply for delivery on the day of subscription.
The characteristic of gold delay is that it can be small or large. In addition, it also provides investors with a short-selling mechanism, that is, selling at a high price first, and then buying at a low price to close the position to earn the difference.
Gold futures are standardized contracts with physical gold as the subject matter of the contract. Generally speaking, the buyers and sellers of gold futures close their positions by selling and repurchasing the same number of contracts as before before the contract expires, without actually delivering real money and silver.
The profit or loss of each transaction is equal to the difference between two contracts in opposite directions. For gold futures contract trading, only a margin of about 10% of the transaction amount is needed as the investment cost, which is highly leveraged, that is, a small amount of funds promotes large-value transactions.