Chapter 1 Basic Concept of Futures Trading

1.Price Risk in Market Economy

2.Forward Trading

3.Emergence of Futures Market

4.Rapid Development of Futures Trading

Chapter 2 Establishment and Functions of Futures Market

1.Prerequisites for the Establishment of Furures Market

2.Characteristics of Futures Market

3.Functions of Futures Market

Chapter 3 Operation of Futures Market

1.Organizational Structure

2.Market Participation

3.Daily Operation and Order Routing

4.Futures Contracts

5.The Margining System

6.Clearing Houses

Chapter 4 Commodity Futures Trading:Hedging

1.What is Hedging?

2.Two Types of Basis

3.Cash and Futures Price Relationship

4.Cash Price at a Premium

5.Two Types of Hedging

6.Additional Advantages of Hedging

Chapter 5 The Effect of Basis Movement on Hedging

1.Basis Movements

2.A Selling Hedge in a Normal Market

3.A Buying Hedge in a Normal Market

4.Great Risk in an Inverted Market

5.Integrated Hedging

6.Summary

Chapter 6 Basis Trading

1.Techniques of Basis Trading

2.Buyer's Call

3.Seller's Call

4.Trading Outside the Ring

1.Speculator's Position

Chapter 7 Spreading

2.What is a Spread?

3.Inter-delivery Spreading

4.Inter-market Spreading

5.Inter-commodity Spreading

Chapter 8 Option

1.Call Option

2.Put Option

3.What Determines the Premium?

4.Option Spreads

Chapter 9 Gold Futures Market

1.Fixed Exchange Rate System Collapsed

2.International Gold Market

3.Pricing of Spot Gold

4.Gold Futures

5.Investment Strategy on Gold Futures

6.Intermarket Gold Futures Trading

1.Emergence of Financial Futures Trading

Chapter 10 Financial Futures Trading

2.Interest Rate Futures

3.Financial Instrument Futures

4.Common Features of Financial Instruments

5.Operation of Financial Futures Trading

6.Option on Financial Futures

7.Stock Index Futures

Chapter 11 Foreign Exchange Futures

1.Forward Exchange Transactions and Arbitrage

2.Foreign Currency Futures

3.Foreign Currency Option

Chapter 12 Futures Markets in China

1.Market Economy and Futures Trading

2.Integration of the Chinese Market with the World Market

3.Futures Market in the Embryonic Stage

4.Futures Market in Operation

5.Positive Steps to be Taken