INVESTMENT : Playing it safe Futures Transactions ?

Recently offered investors a play on the name of the investment with the Hang Seng Index . Initial capital investment of 20,000 thousand U.S. dollars and 2,000 U.S. dollars to play with for 5 dollars per point . When do the transaction for 10 days per month , will be obtained a profit of 1,100 dollars per month ( in dollars around Rp 10 million , with the exchange rate of Rp 9,000 per U.S. dollar ) .

There are also investors who have to liquidate or dilute investments in deposits , mutual funds , stocks , and gold only to invest in the Hang Seng Index . There is also an offer from the marketers that the initial fund investor owned definitely not lost, it will be profitable . Is it safe to invest in this product ?

Investment products offered to investors seems to be a futures transaction products ( Futures ) . The futures transaction is a transaction between two parties will be resolved in the near future at a specified price anyway.

When the transaction is done by investors to commodity futures products such as coffee or CPO , then this product is known as Forward . However , investors can conduct this transaction through an exchange , then the opponent stock market investors and other parties as well as hide the completion of the transaction can be done at any time or at the end of the closing stock berjangkanya . This product is known as Futures .

Investors who wish to trade Futures in Indonesia must use futures exchanges , namely PT Jakarta Futures Exchange ( BBJ ) . The company is under the supervision of Bapebti , government agency under the Ministry of Commerce . Investors who want to trade in the BBJ BBJ members have to go through , known as futures brokerage firms and investors must open an account at the BBJ members .

Initial funding requested by the company's marketing term for 20,000 dollars a bookkeeping account for the funds . When investors trade for the commodity at a specified price , the increases and decreases in commodity prices resulted in investor funds increase or decrease of the initial funds originally deposited .

If commodity prices continue to fall and investor transactions always use large , investor funds depleted and consequently investors certainly will be asked to add to the initial funding . For example , all transactions carried out 1,000 U.S. dollars, the fund of 20,000 dollars will run out within ten days . The first is the risk that investors should understand that investors can anticipate that losses can be minimized .

When investors trade with the Hang Seng Index , the Hang Seng index decreased by 1 point make early investor funds would be reduced by 5 dollars for a single contract . If the contract is carried out at 100 investor contracts , investors are also increasingly large losses , which amounted to 500 U.S. dollars .

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Every day investors should pay attention to volatility indices and funds owned . Because investors opponent is definitely diakuntansikan exchanges and transactions every day , the risk does not pay will not appear and investment investor will not experience a loss and it can be said safely .

For the record , the Hang Seng Index volatilities have amounted to 3467.81 for the 2009 period . At the end of the year at the level of the Hang Seng Index at the end of January 21872.5 and 20121.99 level , meaning a decrease 1750.51 or 8 percent decline from the level at the end of 2009 . When investors have agreements / contracts decreased one point by 5 dollars , investor losses worth 8752 U.S. dollars . Likewise, when the Hang Seng Index rises, the investor will make money and fund investors start to rise .

Investors should use brokerage firms to trade on the exchange . The second is the risk of moral hazard from the brokerage firm . Although the company is actually registered on the stock , making moral hazard issues investors need to be cautious . Therefore , companies should ask iInvestor futures investors to open accounts in the stock so that the transaction can be recorded and accounted for in the future , especially when investors do tax filing each year . Investors can also ask to exchange that the account is in stock .

Investors also need to find information about the company where investors trade . Need to obtain as much information as possible so that investors can make investment decisions for security . Information obtained by the investor company is not just about history or transactions , but also about the personal from corporate managers. Investors should also recognize marketers from brokerage firms where investors make transactions . Introduction and close to the marketer is one way to make the security of investors investing in this product .

Note also the investment period . For these products , investors are better off doing transactions with shorter periods . Short period investors can make investment decisions quickly and minimize losses . The longer the investment period , the higher the risks .

Investors should be aware that investing in the futures market is a risky investment . Risks of investing in the futures market is higher than investments in stocks . Whereas in mind some of the most high- risk stocks . Therefore , investors need to be cautious and careful in order to profitable investments .