1, agricultural futures: the main contract will be changed only three months: 1, May, September.
2. Metal futures: The main contract is to change the month from month to month, but generally February will be skipped, and sometimes August will be skipped. Usually, the main contract month is a contract that is two or three months away from the delivery month.
3. Stock index futures: change monthly, and the main contract month is the delivery month contract.
Different types of futures main contracts have different monthly change laws, which are mainly related to the differences in trading laws. For example, stock index futures allow individual investors to hold positions in the delivery month, while commodity futures generally do not, so the main contract of stock index futures can be the delivery month.
Extended data:
A futures contract means that the buyer and the seller agree to trade at a specific price at a certain time, and the buyer and the seller must deliver the assets according to the specified date (delivery date).
At present, there are four futures exchanges in China: Zhengzhou Futures Exchange, Dalian Futures Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange and China Financial Futures Exchange. The main trading varieties are: agricultural products, precious metals, energy and chemicals, derivatives and industrial products.
Futures account:
Opening an account is very simple. First of all, you need to contact a futures company or a futures consultant to negotiate account opening. First of all, you need to contact an appointment futures company. At present, there are 149 futures member companies in the market. So many futures companies can choose the top futures companies. These companies are relatively large futures brand companies, which can help us save transaction costs and get quality services.
After choosing a good company, we can prepare ID cards, bank cards and handwritten signature photos to open an account online. The process is as follows:
(1) Download the futures company account opening app and register with your mobile phone number.
⑵ Read and agree to the futures business agreement, and take photos of your ID card.
(3) Fill in personal details, futures company information and take photos of the front of the bank card.
(4) After the futures Q&A and risk assessment, conduct the artificial video link.
5) Submit the account opening application and wait for the successful account opening message, which contains the successful account opening account number and initial password.
[6] Bank cards are associated with futures accounts in order to facilitate the deposit and withdrawal of funds.
Once the account is opened successfully, T+ 1 can log into the account to save money.
Futures trading mode is T+0, with two-way trading and margin trading. Domestic futures trading hours are Monday to Friday from 9:00- 1 1:00, afternoon 13:30- 15:00, and night trading is 2 1:00- the next day.