For professional financial investment institutions, their pursuit is to earn the spread by buying and selling futures contracts, and they can use all the methods in futures. For example, trend trading, hedging trading, arbitrage trading, intraday short-term trading, high-frequency trading, programmatic trading and so on;

For enterprises with spot background, the pursuit of most enterprises is to avoid the risk of large price fluctuations, which is the so-called hedging transaction. Some spot enterprises will set up special investment departments to speculate when they see the rapid profit of futures, which is similar to the nature of financial investment institutions.