1. Market risk: When the futures contract market fluctuates greatly, with continuous daily limit or daily limit, if the futures company fails to lighten its position in time, it will be difficult for the losing party operating in Man Cang to quit, and the risk of short position will increase. Once there is a short position, customers will often leave, and futures companies will bear the economic losses first. This risk is the most important and difficult risk for futures companies. Commodity futures are greatly influenced by the real economy, while financial futures are greatly influenced by the central bank's monetary policy and capital market.
The second is operational risk, which includes: the person who placed the order made a mistake and mistyped the customer's instruction, resulting in risk loss; There are errors in the settlement system and computer operating system, resulting in risk loss; Failure to strictly abide by relevant rules and regulations, lack of supervision or restriction, resulting in risk loss, etc.
Three. Liquidity risk: the financial risk caused by a futures company's failure to meet customers' demand for futures trading margin or to repay current liabilities as scheduled.