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What are the trading methods of ICBC's foreign exchange trading?
The trading methods of China Industrial and Commercial Bank's foreign exchange transactions are as follows:

1. Spot foreign exchange transaction: Also known as spot foreign exchange transaction, it refers to the foreign exchange transaction mode in which both parties agree to handle the delivery within two business days after the transaction. Spot foreign exchange trading is the most commonly used trading method in the foreign exchange market, accounting for most of the total foreign exchange transactions.

2. Forward foreign exchange transaction: also known as forward foreign exchange transaction, refers to the foreign exchange transaction in which both parties agree on the trading conditions such as currency, amount, exchange rate and delivery time in advance, but actually deliver after the expiration.

3. Arbitrage: Arbitrage refers to a foreign exchange transaction that uses different foreign exchange markets, different currencies, different delivery times and differences in exchange rates and interest rates of some currencies to buy from the low-priced party and sell from the high-priced party to earn profits.

4. Arbitrage transaction: also known as hedging profit, refers to foreign exchange transactions that use the difference of short-term interest rates in different countries or regions to transfer funds from countries or regions with lower interest rates to countries or regions with higher interest rates for investment, so as to obtain spread income. Futures market arbitrage refers to buying and selling two different futures contracts at the same time.

5. Swap transaction: refers to a transaction that combines two or more foreign exchange transactions with the same currency but opposite trading directions and different delivery dates.

6. Trading of foreign exchange options: foreign exchange options are traded in foreign exchange, that is, the option buyer obtains a right after paying the corresponding option fee to the option seller, that is, after paying a certain amount of option fee, the option buyer has the right to buy and sell the agreed currency at the exchange rate and amount agreed by both parties in advance on the agreed expiration date, and the buyer with this right also has the right not to execute the above-mentioned sales contract.

7. Foreign exchange futures: also known as currency futures, are futures contracts that convert one currency into another at the current exchange rate on the last trading day. Generally speaking, one of the two currencies is the US dollar. In this case, the futures price will be expressed in the form of "X dollars against other currencies".