Financial futures contract, a term in the field of economics, refers to an agreement reached by buyers and sellers in the form of open bidding in an organized exchange to deliver a standard amount of specific financial assets on a specific date in the future.
Mainly including foreign exchange futures, interest rate futures, stock index futures and other contracts. Financial futures contracts can be regarded as standardized forward contracts.
Financial futures is a kind of futures trading. Futures trading refers to the trading of standardized futures contracts in a centralized trading market by open bidding.