Hengtai Futures Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hengtai Futures" or "the Company") is jointly established by Hengtai Securities Co., Ltd. and Hengtai Pioneer Investment Co., Ltd.; The registered capital of the company is RMB 654.38+RMB 25 million; The company is a member of Shanghai Futures Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and Dalian Commodity Exchange, and a trading settlement member of China Financial Futures Exchange. The business scope includes commodity futures brokerage, financial futures brokerage, futures investment consulting and asset management.
Futures development
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 puppet 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.
20021June 15 shanghai securities news reported that the hedging efficiency of over 50% varieties in China's futures market is above 90%, and the futures correlation of over 60% varieties is above 0.9. The futures prices of mature varieties such as copper, cotton and soybean have gradually become the pricing benchmark for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain.