1, agricultural futures

Agricultural products are the earliest commodities for futures trading. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is the main trading place for agricultural futures. Domestic agricultural futures are mainly concentrated in Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, including:

Dalian Commodity Exchange: corn, soybean, soybean meal, soybean oil and palm oil;

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange: wheat, cotton, sugar and rapeseed oil;

2. Nonferrous metal futures

Non-ferrous metals are one of the more mature futures products in the world futures market, and the trading price of London Metal Exchange is recognized as the pricing standard for non-ferrous metals trading all over the world. In recent years, copper futures trading in China has grown rapidly, and now it has surpassed the New York Mercantile Exchange to rank second in the world. The metal varieties of Shanghai Futures Exchange mainly include copper, aluminum, zinc and gold to be introduced soon.

3. Energy futures

Energy futures started at 1978. As a new commodity futures product, its trading volume has been growing rapidly. At present, it is an important variety in the international futures market, second only to agricultural products futures and interest rate futures.

Crude oil is the most important energy futures. At present, the important crude oil futures contracts in the world are: the New York Mercantile Exchange's light and low sulfur crude oil; Brent crude oil futures contract on London International Petroleum Exchange.

China's energy futures are only fuel oil of Shanghai Futures Exchange.

4. Chemical futures

Domestic chemical futures mainly include plastics (LLDPE), purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and natural rubber.