The crime of deceiving investors to buy and sell futures contracts includes: the subject is a special subject, that is, stock exchanges, futures exchanges, securities companies, futures companies and other professionals; The subjective aspect must be intentional; The objects of infringement include the normal trading management order of the securities and futures market; Objectively speaking, it is manifested in deliberately providing false information or forging, altering or destroying transaction records to trick investors into buying and selling securities and futures contracts, resulting in serious consequences.

legal ground

Article 181 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Whoever fabricates and disseminates false information that affects securities and futures trading and disrupts the securities and futures trading market, thus causing serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.

Employees of stock exchanges, futures exchanges, securities companies and futures brokerage companies, and staff of securities associations, futures associations or securities and futures supervision and administration departments who intentionally provide false information or forge, alter or destroy trading records to trick investors into buying and selling securities and futures contracts, thus causing serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; If the circumstances are especially bad, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.