Futures are mainly not commodities, but standardized tradable contracts with cotton, soybeans, oil and other popular products and financial assets such as stocks and bonds as the target. Therefore, the subject matter can be commodities (such as gold, crude oil and agricultural products) or financial instruments.

The delivery date of futures can be one week later, one month later, three months later or even one year later.

A contract or agreement to buy or sell futures is called a futures contract. The place where futures are bought and sold is called the futures market. Investors can invest or speculate in futures.

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Transaction classification

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 commodities (tools) such as stock index, interest rate and exchange rate. All kinds of futures trading include options trading.

Commodity futures

Agricultural products futures: such as soybean, soybean oil, soybean meal, indica rice, wheat, corn, cotton, sugar, coffee, pork breast, rapeseed oil and palm oil.

Metal futures: such as copper, aluminum, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, gold, silver, rebar, wire, etc.

Energy futures: such as crude oil (plastics, PTA, PVC), gasoline (methanol) and fuel oil. Emerging varieties include temperature, carbon dioxide emission quota and natural rubber.

Financial futures

Stock index futures: such as FTSE index in Britain, DAX index in Germany, Nikkei average index in Tokyo, Hang Seng index in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 index, etc.

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