The practice of trading standardized future contracts is centuries old. The first instance of organized futures trading took place in Japan in the 1600s, where wealthy landowners accepted a portion of the harvest as payment from tenants, then sold receipts against this rice. The early futures markets were all for agricultural products. Today, futures markets provide price discovery and risk transfer for many products, including metal, heating oil and gasoline, and financial instruments such as currencies, bonds, and stock market indexes. Traders include large commercial concerns, individual hedgers, and speculators of all types.
Futures trading involves risks.
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