1. Different definitions: A futures contract refers to an agreement that the buyer agrees to receive assets at a specific price after a specified time, and the seller agrees to deliver assets at a specific price after a specified time. Leveraged trading is to invest several times the original amount with very little money. The former is an agreement and the latter is an investment.

2. The rules are different: futures contracts are standardized contracts designed by exchanges and approved by national regulatory agencies. The holders of futures contracts can fulfill or cancel their contractual obligations through the settlement of spot or hedging transactions. Leveraged trading is that investors use their own funds as a guarantee to amplify the financing provided by banks or brokers for foreign exchange trading, that is, to amplify the trading funds of investors.

3. Different characteristics: Leveraged trading has the characteristics of 24-hour trading, global market, few trading varieties, flexible risk control, two-way trading, flexible operation, high leverage ratio, low transaction cost and low entry threshold. Futures contracts are characterized by small and wide, two-way trading, no need to worry about performance, transparent market, tight organization and high efficiency.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Futures Contract

Baidu Encyclopedia-Leveraged Trading