Commodity futures varieties refer to futures contracts with physical goods as the subject matter. Futures commodities have a long history and a wide variety, mainly including agricultural and sideline products, metal products, energy products and other categories. There are many kinds of futures trading. This paper mainly introduces the futures varieties of futures and the futures codes corresponding to each futures variety.
Types of futures In short, futures can be divided into commodity futures and financial futures.
Commodity futures are divided into industrial products (which can be subdivided into metal commodities (precious metals and non-precious metals) and energy commodities), agricultural products and other commodities. Financial futures are mainly traditional financial products (tools) such as stock index, interest rate and exchange rate. All kinds of futures trading include options trading.
Futures agricultural products: such as soybean meal, wheat, corn, sugar, etc.
Metal futures: such as copper, aluminum, tin, lead and other metal products, as well as gold and rebar.
Future energy sources, such as crude oil (plastics, PTA and PVC), gasoline (methanol) and fuel oil.
Types of financial futures
Stock index futures: stock indexes, such as FTSE, DAX, Nikkei, Hang Seng, Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index, etc.
Interest rate futures: refers to futures contracts with bond securities as the subject matter, which can avoid the risk of securities price changes caused by interest rate fluctuations.
Foreign exchange futures: also known as currency futures, it is a futures contract that converts one currency into another at the current exchange rate on the last trading day. Refers to futures contracts with exchange rate as the subject matter, which are used to avoid exchange rate risks. This is the earliest variety in futures finance.
Commodity futures varieties are based on various commodities, while financial futures varieties are based on various virtual financial products. No matter what kind of investment you choose to make, futures must have a basic understanding of this variety. Of course, familiarity means different things to traders who use fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Starting from the fundamental analysis, we should be familiar with the upstream and downstream industries of this variety and know where the key factors restricting the price trend are; Technical analysis starts from the disk, and it is necessary to understand some basic laws of price changes, such as its resistance line and support line.
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