Gold futures are futures contracts of spot gold. Gold futures, like other futures trading, are contracts for delivery at a certain transaction price at a specified time, and the contracts have certain standards. One of the characteristics of futures is that investors buy a certain amount of gold in deposits received, a futures brokerage institution. Generally speaking, buyers and sellers of gold futures close their positions by selling and repurchasing the same number of contracts as before before the contract expiration date, without actually delivering real money and silver. The profit and loss of each transaction is equal to the difference between two contracts in opposite directions, which is commonly known as "speculation".

Gold futures contract trading only needs a small amount of margin as the investment cost, which is highly leveraged, that is, a small amount of funds promotes large transactions, so gold futures trading is also called "margin trading".