What's the difference between stocks and futures?

Stocks belong to paid-in capital investment, which is generally invested according to paid-in capital. You can buy as many stocks as possible.

Futures is a debt investment, but I only pay part of the deposit to the futures company, and the rest of the money is borrowed from the futures company.

2. Different trading methods.

Stocks are one-way transactions, and investors have the right to sell only when they buy stocks.

Futures investors can buy first and then sell, that is, two-way trading.

3. Different definitions

Stock is a certificate of ownership issued by a joint-stock company, and it is a kind of valuable securities issued by a joint-stock company to all shareholders as a shareholding certificate to obtain dividends and bonuses. Each share represents the shareholder's ownership of the basic unit of the enterprise.

Futures are mainly not commodities, but standardized tradable contracts with cotton, soybeans, oil and other popular products and financial assets such as stocks and bonds as the target. Therefore, the subject matter can be commodities (such as gold, crude oil and agricultural products) or financial instruments.

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