Futures market: it is a place for futures trading and the sum of various trading relationships.
In accordance with the principles of openness, fairness and justice,
A highly organized and standardized market form developed on the basis of spot market.
It is not only an extension of the spot market, but also another advanced development stage of the market.
Futures and spot are completely different. Spot is a real commodity that can be traded.
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.
Most people think that improper futures speculation,
For example, the shortage of goods will lead to financial market turmoil, which is not correct.
Going long and shorting at the same time is a healthy and normal trading market.