一、期货交易的含义及其条件、作用 商品经济的发展是与市场体系的孕育和发展联系在一起的。自商品来到人间,客观上就要求商品经济社会为商品生产者提供一个借以交换商品或劳务的交易场所,以实现商品的价值。但是,商品的价值能否顺利地实现,能否公平地实现,则取决于市场体系调控机制的完善与否。在现代社会,尽管商品经济在有些国家已是相当的发达,但信息、 I. The meaning, conditions, and role of futures trading The development of the commodity economy is linked to the gestation and development of the market system. Since commodities come to the world, it is objectively required that the commodity economy and society provide commodity producers with a trading place through which to exchange goods or services to realize the value of the commodities. However, whether the value of a commodity can be successfully implemented and whether it can be implemented fairly depends on the perfection of the market system’s control mechanism. In modern society, although commodity economy is already quite developed in some countries, information,