Digital currency futures price
in view of the uncontrollable rise and fall of digital currency, it is not recommended to increase leverage or play futures. The risk is too high.
1. Legitimacy
the domestic futures market countries set up financial derivatives trading venues, which are composed of four exchanges, namely, China Gold Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange, big business exchange and Zheng business exchange, which are supervised and managed by China Securities Regulatory Commission, futures monitoring center and futures association according to law
except bitcoin, which has a perfect management mechanism, the management of other digital currencies is chaotic and belongs to non-governmental organizations. Governments have never recognized the legality of digital currencies. Credit is completely managed by the self-discipline of issuers and participants, which poses great risks
Domestic futures: 9:00-10:15 a.m., 10:30-11:30 p.m. and 13:30-15:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday (except holidays)digital currency: it can be traded 24 hours a day, and the trading time is in line with the international market
3. Proct selection
domestic futures: at present, there are dozens of futures varieties, and each variety has at least four months of contract, with standardized management and large trading volume, so it is difficult for funds to control the market
digital currency: the management is not standardized. Although many non-governmental organizations or indivials have set up a lot of digital currencies, the information is limited, and it is difficult to understand the situation of a certain digital currency. Some digital currencies have hierarchical relationship between the upper and lower families. Investing in a certain digital currency is a matter of luck, without any data as a reference
4, two-way trading
domestic futures, with its own leverage, can be two-way trading, long and short can be, t + 0 trading, after the profit can appear
digital currency: long by one side, and the so-called depletion of power resources to mine, the relationship between the superior and the subordinate profits
digital currency is abbreviated as digiccy, which is the abbreviation of "digital currency" in English, and is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy
digital currency is a kind of unregulated and digital currency, which is usually issued and managed by developers and accepted and used by members of specific virtual communities. The European Banking authority defines virtual currency as a digital representation of value, which is not issued by the central bank or authorities, nor linked with legal currency. However, because it is accepted by the public, it can be used as a means of payment, or it can be transferred, stored or traded in electronic form
Futures:
futures, whose English name is futures, is totally different from spot. Spot is actually tradable goods (commodities). Futures are mainly not goods, but standardized tradable contracts based on certain popular procts such as cotton, soybean, oil, and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, the subject matter can be a commodity (such as gold, crude oil, agricultural procts) or a financial instrument
the days of futures settlement can be one week later, one month later, three months later, or even one year later
a contract or agreement to buy or sell futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are traded is called the futures market. Investors can invest or speculate in futures
foreign exchange:
foreign exchange, English name is foreign currency, which is the creditor's rights that the monetary Administration (central bank, monetary management institution, foreign exchange stabilization fund and the Ministry of Finance) can use in the event of balance of payments deficit in the form of bank deposits, treasury bonds of the Ministry of finance, long-term and short-term government securities, etc
it includes foreign currency, foreign currency deposits, foreign currency securities (government bonds, treasury bonds, corporate bonds, stocks, etc.), and foreign currency payment certificates (bills, bank deposit certificates, postal savings certificates, etc.)
as of 2015, China ranked first in the world in terms of foreign exchange reserves. But the United States, Japan, Germany and other state-owned private foreign exchange reserves, the country's overall foreign exchange reserves are much higher than China.
the two major bitcoin futures procts have the following similarities and differences, which are worth noting:
1. XBT unit is 1 bitcoin, BTC is 5 bitcoins
2. Minimum price change: XBT is $10 / bitcoin, BTC is $5 / bitcoin
3. XBT trading time is from 7:00 a.m. on Monday to 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, Beijing time; BCT trading time is from 7:00 on Monday to 4:15 on Saturday, Beijing time
4. The position limit is 5000
5. Price circuit breaker mechanism: XBT price fluctuates more than 10% of the previous day's closing price, trading is suspended for 2 minutes, trading is suspended for 5 minutes if it exceeds 20%; The BTC price fluctuates more than 7% or 13% of the closing price of the previous day, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism. The specific suspension time has not been disclosed. If it exceeds 20%, the trading will stop
6. XBT requires 44% initial margin, which is about 2 times leverage; BTC Requires 35% of the initial margin, which is about 3 times the leverage. It is worth noting that both exchanges have indicated that the margin amount can be adjusted according to the actual situation.