I. Agricultural product futures

Cereals (wheat, corn, soybeans, etc.). ) is a bulk commodity and the earliest commodity that constitutes futures trading. Specifically, it can be divided into: grain futures, mainly including wheat futures, corn futures, soybean futures, soybean meal futures, red bean futures and rice futures.

Cash crop futures such as raw sugar, coffee, cocoa, palm oil futures and rapeseed futures can also be called "soft commodities".

Livestock products futures mainly include meat products and fur products futures.

Forest products futures, mainly timber futures and natural rubber futures.

Two. Nonferrous metal futures

Nonferrous metals are one of the more mature futures products in the world futures market. At present, there are about 10 kinds of metal futures listed and traded in the international futures market, namely copper, aluminum, lead, tin, nickel, palladium, platinum, gold and silver. The precious metal, industrial metal or non-precious metal futures included in it are not classified one by one.

Third, energy futures.

It started from 1978 at the earliest, and it is a new commodity futures with extremely active trading volume, which has been showing a rapid growth trend. At present, its trading volume has surpassed metal futures, second only to agricultural products futures and interest rate futures, and it is an important part of the international futures market. At present, crude oil is the most important energy futures, among which the most important crude oil futures contracts are light and low sulfur crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Brent crude oil futures contract on the London International Petroleum Exchange.

Fourth, stock index futures.

Stock index futures is a futures contract with stock index as the subject matter. It is a financial product with the shortest time to enter futures and the fastest development, and has become one of the most dynamic risk management tools in the international capital market. The essence of its trading is that investors transfer their expected risk of the whole stock market price index to the futures market through index futures tools, and its risk can be offset by the trading operations of investors who have different judgments on the stock market trend.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) interest rate futures

Refers to futures contracts with bond securities as the subject matter, which can avoid the risk of securities price changes caused by bank interest rate fluctuations. Interest rate futures can be divided into short-term interest rate futures and long-term interest rate futures, and can be divided into short-term treasury bond futures, medium-and long-term treasury bond futures and Eurodollar time deposit futures according to debt certificates. This form of futures is mainly concentrated in the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Intransitive verb foreign exchange futures

Refers to the futures contract with the exchange rate as the subject matter, which is used to avoid exchange rate risks. It is also the earliest variety in financial futures. Its main trading varieties are: US dollar, British pound, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and so on. Worldwide, the main market for foreign exchange futures is the United States.