If the investor fails to make up the margin in time, the futures company may implement partial or full forced liquidation of the account owner's positions until the retained margin meets the specified requirements. After buying stocks, as long as you don't sell them, the profit and loss are all on the book, and you don't need to ignore them. However, futures are traded on margin, and profit and loss must be settled every day. Book profits can be withdrawn, but book losses must be supplemented with margin.
The delivery of stock index futures is also different from that of stocks. Generally, stock investors are used to spot trading, but it is easy to ignore that stock index futures contracts need to be settled in cash at the contract delivery price of the day when they expire. Therefore, if you want to hold positions, you need to hold non-spot months. contract.
1. How to open a futures account: If investors do the above five preparations well before opening an account, the rest of the work such as training and taking exams will be relatively simple, and it will be no problem to successfully obtain a stock index futures account.
2. My ID card, check the age of the customer through the ID card (female must not exceed 59 years old, male must not exceed 60 years old) 3.
Educational certificate, the higher the education level, the higher the score in the subsequent comprehensive evaluation. Of course, this does not mean that there is no education background cannot successfully open an account;
4. Proof of commodity futures and securities transactions. Those with experience in commodity futures should issue a delivery certificate. Investors with experience in securities transactions should issue a certificate in a securities company. In addition, if they have no experience in commodity futures transactions, they should have 20 simulated transaction records; 5.
Issue Proof of financial assets and income status, financial assets include stocks, futures, etc., and the score of this certificate will reach 50 points in the subsequent comprehensive evaluation; 6.
Proof of personal integrity record.
7. Futures account opening, that is, the behavior of investors opening futures accounts and capital accounts, generally there is no threshold. The China Securities Regulatory Commission does not expressly stipulate the lower limit of account opening funds for futures investors. The account opening funds vary with the size of the futures companies and the different trading methods. Each company has a certain floating space in the requirements for account opening funds. With the gradual increase of bank-futures transfer and futures-securities transfer business, customers can freely transfer funds between bank accounts, securities accounts, and futures accounts.
8. Futures are completely different from spot goods. Spot is a commodity (commodity) that can be traded. Futures are not mainly goods, but are based on certain bulk products such as cotton, soybeans, oil, etc. and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Etc. is the target standardized tradable contract. Therefore, the subject matter can be a certain commodity (such as gold, crude oil, agricultural products), or it can be a financial instrument.