At present, online trading has become the main way of futures trading, so the stability, security and convenience of futures market and trading system have become an important guarantee for the success or failure of customers' investment. Secondly, we should choose a futures brokerage company with good reputation and standardized operation. At present, due to the strengthening of supervision, there are few cases of misappropriating customers' deposits in China, but the Jialing futures incident in Sichuan in 2004 once again exposed the irregular operation of a few futures brokerage companies due to competitive pressure. Therefore, investors should focus on the strength, business reputation and operation of the company when choosing a brokerage firm. Third, we should choose a futures brokerage company with strong R&D strength and good information service. Information and market research are the key factors for the profitability of futures trading. On the one hand, the services of futures brokerage companies are trading channels, on the other hand, they are information services, which provide investors with research materials, quotations and trading suggestions for commodities and help customers make trading decisions, which is also an important level of competition for futures brokerage companies at present. Therefore, investors should focus on those brokers with strong R&D team and perfect information service means, rather than selecting brokers according to the level of handling fees. Finally, investors should choose good brokers as well as futures brokerage companies. At present. Broker model is widely used in domestic futures industry, which is an important difference between futures market and securities market in market operation. A professional, earnest and honest broker can solve many problems of investors in futures investment and greatly improve investment performance.