In fact, this is the speculation of agricultural futures. (What is futures? Please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia. ) Agricultural products futures mainly include cotton, soybean, wheat, corn, sugar, coffee, pork brisket, rapeseed oil and palm oil. Futures speculation is a financial derivative tool, but it is actually a virtual transaction, and often both parties will not come into contact with commodities. It just means that you have the ownership of a certain number of valuable commodities, and the purpose of speculators' trading is not to sell or use them, but to profit from this commodity.

Let's give a simple example. For example, if you want to fry bananas, it is expected that bananas will rise in three months, so you buy a banana contract for three-month delivery at the price of 1 000 yuan per meal. After three months, bananas rose to 1.050 yuan per meal, and then you sold this contract in the futures market, so you earned 50 yuan per meal. Of course, if you expect bananas to fall, you can also fry bananas. Specifically, you can sell a three-month delivery contract at a price of 65,438+0,000 yuan. After three months, bananas fall to 950 yuan, so you can buy the same number of bananas for performance, so you can earn a meal in 50 yuan.

In short, speculating in futures means buying cheap and selling expensive, which is very simple, but you should have keen insight and be able to judge market trends. I suggest you don't enter this field easily. Generally speaking, profit and risk are in direct proportion.