Buying and selling standardized futures contracts in the futures market purely for profit is called futures speculation. Futures speculation can be "short" or "short".

1. A speculator judged that cotton prices rose in a certain month and bought the 10 contract (5 tons each) at the price of 14200 yuan per ton. Later, the cotton futures price rose to 14250 yuan per ton, so he sold the contract of 10 at this price. Profit: (14250 yuan/ton-14200 yuan/ton) ×5 tons/sheet × 10 sheet = 2500 yuan. 2. Short-selling speculation A speculator thinks that the wheat in 2065,438+065,438 438+ 10/0 will be reduced from 60,000 yuan. After the wheat futures price drops to 1.250 yuan/ton, five contracts are bought, and the profit is: (1.300 yuan/ton-1.250 yuan/ton) × 10 ton/sheet× 5 sheets = 2,500 yuan.