Commodity futures are futures contracts whose indicators are physical commodities. Commodity futures have a long history and are of various types, mainly including agricultural and sideline products, metal products, energy products, etc. Specifically, there are about 20 kinds of agricultural and sideline products, including corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, oats, barley, rye, pork belly, live pigs, live cattle, calves, soybean meal, soybean oil, cocoa, coffee, cotton, Wool, sugar, orange juice, rapeseed oil, etc. Among them, soybeans, corn, and wheat are known as the three major agricultural product futures: 9 types of metal products, including gold, silver, copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, rake, and platinum; chemical industry There are 5 types of products, including crude oil, heating oil, unleaded regular gasoline, propane, and natural rubber; 2 types of forestry products, including wood and plywood.

Commodity futures trading is the buying and selling of

"standardized contracts" (i.e.

"futures contracts") that represent specific commodities.

Financial futures: refers to futures contracts with financial instruments as the subject matter. As a type of futures trading, financial futures have the general characteristics of futures trading, but compared with commodity futures, the subject matter of the contract is not physical commodities, but traditional financial commodities, such as securities, currencies, exchange rates, interest rates, etc.

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