Intermediary, also known as "broker". It refers to the party who provides the client with a contracting opportunity or acts as a contracting medium in an intermediary contract.

The broker is neither a party to the contract concluded between the client and a third party, nor an agent of any party. According to the laws of modern countries, although intermediation is a commercial activity, anyone can engage in this business freely, except intermediation in the exchange law.

The broker's main obligation is to provide an introduction for the client to conclude a contract with a third party; Its main right is to get the agreed remuneration when the intermediary succeeds.

Through objective and fair evaluation, play the role of "goodwill third party" to help investors understand the futures market, reveal futures risks, discover investment opportunities and participate in futures trading; Actively guide investors to conclude contracts with futures companies with good credit, standardized operation and rich management experience, and shall not publicize the companies they serve by slandering other companies.

Professional skills of intermediaries:

1, publicity ability

Although the interests of customers come first and need to get financial or psychological returns, as a futures company, it also needs to win profits from its business, and the middleman must also get paid, so that the three parties can feel that the transaction is worthwhile. Therefore, when developing customers, intermediaries must be able to take into account the interests of these three parties.

2. Research ability

A good broker must also do his own trading well, because his trading fails and he quits trading. People who become brokers will not go far on the road of brokers.

3. Guiding ability

In order to consider customers' income, future economic plans and customers' own psychological state and help them not deviate from the right path, intermediaries should have the ability to analyze market trends, analyze traders' trading records and guide customers' learning from the perspective of professionals, and provide customers with a learning environment for communication and discussion.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Intermediary