期貨市場的功能在于價格發現、價格風險規避及市場效率提高。
2. Futures markets provide a current consensus of knowledgeable opinions about the future price of commodities or financial instruments.
期貨市場提供了對商品或金融工具未來價格綜合信息所作出的市場判斷。
3. Futures contracts are a promise between two parties to exchange a commodity at a specified time and place in the future for a stated price.
期貨合約是交易雙方就在未來確定的時間和地點，按確定的價格交換某種商品的一種承諾。
4. Most market participants prefer to offset futures positions, rather than to make actual delivery.
期貨市場的交易者大都未進行實際交割，而是對市場部位對沖了結。
5. Parties who have sold a futures contract are said to have taken a short position.
出售期貨合約的出售者被認為是處在市場空頭。
6. Futures trading takes place only on government-regulated exchanges.
期貨交易只能在政府管理的交易所內進行。
7. If you go short and the futures price goes up, you lose money.
如果你賣空而期貨價格上升，你就賠錢。
8. Futures is one of the types of financial futures.
外匯期貨是金融期貨的一種。
9. The futures price is not constant until the contract expires.
直到其期貨合約到期之前，期貨價格才穩定。
10. A long position involves inflows greater than outflows in a currency and a short position involved outflows greater than inflows.
多頭是一種貨幣的流入大于流出，而空頭指一種貨幣的流出大于流入。
11. Hedging in futures markets is synonymous with shifting risk.
期貨市場上的套做交易實際上就是轉移風險。
12. Margin requirements ensure the performance of both parties to a futures contract.
保證金要求是期貨合約雙方履約的保證。
13. Margin requirements also provide traders with substantial leverage.
保證金也給了交易商以極大的財務杠桿的便利。
14. At the close of every trading day, the clearinghouse matches buy and sell contracts for the day.
在每天的交易結束之后，清算所將當天的買賣合約進行撮合。
15. The clearinghouse informs every exchange member of their net settlement status.
清算所將每個交易所清算成員各自的凈結算頭寸通知他們。
