As a guest of private banking and high-end wealth management institutions, diamonds have always been a “high ocean†investment. However, the Western Commodity Exchange Center will launch online diamond trading electronic trading today, investors can spend at least 60,000 yuan to participate, which completely reduced the diamond investment to the public level.
Diamond investment threshold is lowered
China's first diamond spot continuous trading electronic disk will open today at the Lanzhou Western Commodity Exchange Center. Ding Xiao, general manager of the Diamond Trading Center of the Western Commodity Exchange Center, said that the trading center is ready to provide investors with diamond electronic trading platform and related supporting services, and will organize traders to conduct electronic trading, delivery and settlement.
According to the rules of the Western Commodity Exchange Center, the goods traded on the platform are round-cut loose diamonds ranging from 1 carat to 1.49 carats. The cut grade is perfect cut, and it is delivered according to the 4C identification standard of diamonds.
It is understood that diamond varieties are listed on the exchange, and the problem of standardization has been difficult to solve because each diamond is unique. In order to solve this problem, the Western Commodity Exchange Center has expanded the range of diamond raw materials that can be delivered on the platform by implementing premiums and surcharges instead of settlement.
Compared with the physical investment in loose diamonds, the threshold for diamond spot trading in the Western Commodity Exchange Center has been greatly reduced. According to the trading center, the minimum settlement unit for round cut loose diamonds is 10 carats, and the margin is 20% of the total turnover. According to the current market price of diamonds of 300,000 yuan / carat, investors only need 60,000 yuan to buy or sell on the platform.
In order to promote market liquidity and guarantee continuous transactions, the Western Commodity Exchange Center stipulates that traders who have not successfully matched the settlement on the same day may receive deferred settlement compensation according to the spot delivery rules of the center.
Although there is a compensation setting, can liquidity be worry-free? In this regard, Ding Xiao said that the trading center currently has more than 20 member units, and investors have opened more than one hundred. In addition, the trading center will also adopt certain technical means to promote the activity of the transaction.
In terms of risk management, the online electronic trading platform of the Western Commodity Exchange Center is connected with the bank settlement system and the warehouse management system to facilitate real-time information transmission and monitoring. The Shenzhen Laboratory of the National Jewelry Quality Supervision and Inspection Center designated by the trading center is a third-party quality inspection agency.
Domestic diamond investment is suppressed
In Europe and the United States, diamonds, like gold, are regarded as the "hard currency" closest to money, and are also an investment tool against inflation. In the domestic high-end collection and alternative investment market, diamond investment is a frequent visitor. However, domestic diamond investment has not been accepted by the public due to factors such as limited circulation channels and difficulties in realizing liquidation.
“Because there is no realisation platform, domestic diamond investment has been suppressed.†Ding Xiao said that there are mainly two ways of realizing domestic diamonds in the form of auctions and pawns. In mature markets, many countries have diamond banks and investment products derived from diamonds. Very rich.
The development potential of the Chinese diamond market is huge. Diamond's annual global trading volume is 100 billion US dollars. Since 2009, China has become the world's second largest diamond consumer, and its annual diamond consumption is growing at a high speed. Jewelry industry insiders said that in China, the price of a loose diamond has been increased by 2 to 3 times after being inlaid. Even so, there is no shortage of diamond fans to consume. At present, many consumers have turned their attention to unprocessed loose diamonds. In the loose diamond market, there are not many diamonds with value-preserving space. Diamonds that reach a certain level are often expensive.
As the number of investors interested in diamonds increases, spot exchanges around the world seek to keep up with the times. It is understood that in addition to the first spot diamond trading platform of the Western Commodity Exchange Center, there are at least three diamond exchanges in the country. The Western Commodity Exchange Center is the largest commodity trading center in the western region approved and established by the Gansu Provincial Department of Commerce, the Lanzhou Municipal People's Government and the Lanzhou New District Management Committee. The varieties currently listed and traded are mainly metal and petrochemical.
Some investors who have participated in futures or spot trading said that the most important thing for participating in diamond investment is platform qualification, which is related to safety and liquidity. If these two major problems are not solved, diamond investment will still not have a big step. development of.
Most investors interviewed said that they will consider participating in diamond investment in the future, but they still choose to wait and see.
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