Futures companies have the business of buying and selling futures contracts, handling settlement and delivery procedures, managing customers' accounts, controlling customers' trading risks, providing customers with futures market information and consulting on futures trading.

A futures company refers to an intermediary organization established according to law, which accepts the entrustment of customers, conducts futures trading for customers in its own name according to their instructions, and collects trading fees, and the trading results are borne by customers. Futures companies are the bridge between traders and futures exchanges. Futures traders are the main body of the futures market, and it is precisely because futures traders have the demand for hedging or speculative profits that they promote the emergence and development of the futures market.