Futures market first appeared in Europe. As early as ancient Greece and Rome, there were central trading places, bulk barter transactions, and trading activities with the nature of futures trade. The original futures trading was developed from spot forward trading.

The first thing that appears is:

The first modern futures exchange 1848 was established in Chicago, USA, and 1865 established a standard contract model.

The future of China:

In 1990s, China Modern Futures Exchange came into being. There are four futures exchanges in China: Shanghai Futures Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and China Financial Futures Exchange. The price changes of its listed futures products have a far-reaching impact on related industries at home and abroad.

Futures formation:

The initial spot forward transaction is a verbal commitment by both parties to deliver a certain amount of goods at a certain time. Later, with the expansion of the scope of transactions, oral promises were gradually replaced by sales contracts. This kind of contract behavior is becoming more and more complicated, and it needs intermediary guarantee to supervise the timely delivery and payment of goods. So the Royal Exchange, the world's first commodity forward contract exchange, opened in London on 157 1. In order to adapt to the continuous development of commodity economy, improve transportation and storage conditions and provide information for members, 1848, 82 businessmen initiated and organized the Chicago Board of Trade (Board 185 1 Chicago Board of Trade to launch forward contracts; 1865, Chicago Grain Exchange introduced a standardized agreement called "futures contract" to replace the previous forward contract. This standardized contract allows manual contract trading, and gradually improves the margin system, thus forming a futures market specializing in standardized contract trading, and futures become investors' investment and financial management tools. 1882 exchange allows hedging to be exempted from performance obligations, which increases the liquidity of futures trading.

The history of futures:

The earliest futures market in history was Japan in the edo shogunate era. Because the price of rice at that time had a great influence on economic and military activities, rice merchants decided to buy and sell rice in stock according to the output of rice and the market's expectation of rice.

In the1970s, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT innovated many futures products, and vigorously developed many financial futures products, making financial futures the mainstream of the futures market. In the1980s, the Chicago Stock Exchange began to develop electronic trading platforms. At the end of 1990' s, there was a trend of mergers and acquisitions in various countries' exchanges.

In ancient China, there was a commodity credit and forward contract system composed of grain depot and grain market. During the Republic of China, there were many futures exchanges in China and Shanghai, and the market was once crazy. The Manchukuo government also set up futures exchanges in Dalian, Yingkou, Fengtian and other northeast 15 cities, mainly engaged in soybean, bean cake and soybean oil futures trade. 1949 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the futures exchange disappeared in Chinese mainland for decades. By 1992, Zhengzhou had set off another wave of speculation in futures, and various provinces and cities blossomed everywhere. At most, more than 50 futures exchanges opened at the same time, exceeding the sum of futures exchanges in other countries in the world. On 1994 and 1998, China the State Council strengthened supervision twice, suspended some futures products and ordered some exchanges to stop business. Since 1998, there are only three legal commodity futures exchanges in Chinese mainland: Shanghai Futures Exchange, Dalian Futures Exchange and Zhengzhou Futures Exchange. The former deals in energy and metal commodity futures, while the latter two deal in agricultural products futures. On September 8, 2006, China Financial Futures Exchange was established in Shanghai, and the first product launched was the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 stock index futures.

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