I discuss it from five aspects: formality, futures company rating, trading system, handling fee, and margin
1. The formality of futures companies.
Regarding the formality of the futures company, you can check the name of the futures company to know its formality.
There are several ways to find
1. Check the names of 149 futures companies across the country on the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Before opening an account, you can check whether the futures company you opened an account has announced its name on the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Because the securities and futures business is franchised in China and is supervised by a special regulatory agency, you can only check it on the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. .
The following is the URL for inquiries by the China Securities Regulatory Commission: Directory of Futures Companies (June 2019)
2. You can go to the China Futures Association to search for it. The search method is shown in the figure below. Those who can retrieve detailed information on the association's website are regular futures companies. Association link: China Futures Association-Home
3. If you have already opened a futures account, check it through the "China Futures Market Monitoring Center". This must be that you have already opened a futures account, and if you have a customer number, consult the futures company where the account is opened, ask your own account in the Margin Monitoring Center, and then log in to check. If you can log in, then the account you opened is If a regular account cannot log in normally, it is not a regular futures account.
2. Attach the link of China Futures Market Monitoring Center: China Futures Monitoring Center
1. Regarding the rating of futures companies (the latest rating results so far, if there is an update from the association, it will be updated in time)
The ratings of all futures companies can be found in the China Futures Association.
As shown in the figure below,
2. Questions about the trading system
At present, the best trading system on the market is the CTP trading system, and the CTP trading system is the best. Generally, futures companies with good ratings and CTP-based trading systems generally have good servers.
Advantages of CTP Open API interface
The comprehensive trading platform has been adhering to the purpose of "integrating more technical resources to provide the highest-end solutions for the futures industry" from the very beginning, and an open API interface is a necessary prerequisite for implementing this purpose. Only with an open interface can the comprehensive trading platform meet the diverse and individual needs of futures trading customers while providing a stable and efficient transaction settlement background.
First of all, the open interface provides a legal platform for programmatic traders to directly access the trading background. Programmatic traders no longer need to bear the system and business risks of cracking the private interface of popular trading systems in the market for illegal access, and also There is no need to swallow your anger and use the gateway platform provided by the trading system manufacturer, which has been packaged layer by layer and is extremely slow.