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Contract Basics: What to Verify Before Trading Equity-Linked Futures

-- Why contract details are the first risk control

Many trading mistakes happen before you ever click “Buy” or “Sell.” They happen when a trader assumes a contract behaves like something else. Futures-style products can vary widely in settlement rules, margin requirements, and pricing mechanics, so verifying specifications is a form of risk management.

Checklist: the non-negotiables

  • Underlying reference: what exactly is the contract tracking?
  • Contract unit: how much exposure does one contract represent?
  • Price increments: tick size and how it affects order placement.
  • Minimum order size: whether partial sizing is possible.
  • Margin rules: initial vs maintenance margin, plus any tiering by size.
  • Liquidation policy: how the platform handles margin shortfalls and what warnings appear.

Cost checklist: what you actually pay

A trader should estimate costs before trading, especially for short-term strategies.

  • Entry fee and exit fee (maker/taker differences)
  • Any ongoing funding/financing mechanism (if applicable to the contract)
  • Spread and expected slippage for your typical order size

How to translate specs into a trade plan

Once you know the contract unit and margin rules, you can size properly. Choose a stop-loss level based on market structure, compute the dollar risk, then choose position size so that a stop-out is a tolerable loss. This is the opposite of “max leverage and hope.”

Where to start your due diligence

Begin with the official entry page Bitget stock futures, then confirm the exact contract specifications within the platform before placing any order.

Conclusion

Futures trading rewards preparation. If you treat contract specifications and cost estimation as mandatory, you reduce the chance of avoidable errors and put your strategy on a more professional foundation.

Contact Info:
Name: Bitget Support
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Organization: Bitget
Website: https://www.bitget.com/

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