一、为什么期货市场是至关重要的? 期货市场是买卖各种实物商品与金融商品远期交货合同的一种市场。期货市场主要由四个部分组成:即期货交易所、结算所、经纪公司与投资者。与证券市场不同,在期货市场上上市的不是股票,而是商品,如:棉花、大豆等。但这种商品本身并不进入期货市场,进入期货市场交易的只是通常称为期货的远期交货合同。这种合同是一种标准化的合同,对于实物商品期货来讲,其内容包括标准重量单位、代表品种规格、交割定点仓库、交割日期、保证金、交易时间、报价单位、交易方式、每日价格变动限制等等。某种商品的期货市场常常同一种有组织的商品交 I. Why is the futures market crucial? The futures market is a market for the purchase and sale of various physical goods and financial products for forward delivery contracts. The futures market is mainly composed of four parts: futures exchanges, clearing houses, brokerage companies and investors. Unlike the stock market, it is not a stock that is listed on the futures market but a commodity such as cotton, soybeans, etc. However, this commodity does not enter the futures market itself, and the futures market is traded only by the forward delivery contract usually referred to as futures. This type of contract is a standardized contract. For physical commodity futures, the content includes standard weight units, representative specifications, delivery fixed-point warehouses, delivery dates, margins, trading hours, quotation units, transaction methods, and daily price changes. Limits and more. A commodity’s futures market is often traded with an organized commodity