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Farmers grow wheat and sell it to millers who use it to make flour. Sometimes a farmer wants to lock in a price for her wheat before the harvest, so she will sell wheat futures on a commodity futures exchange. Wheat futures are derivative contracts on wheat, and you don’t have to be a farmer to trade them. Anyone who wants to bet on the future price of wheat can trade wheat futures. If the futures trade at $5.50 per bushel, you can buy wheat at $5.50 today, and later you can sell it back at whatever the price turns out to be. If the price of wheat goes up to $5.75, you will make $0.25 per bushel; if it falls to $5, you’ll lose $0.50 per bushel.
This technology is so useful that it has been widely generalized, and now commodities exchanges offer futures contracts on all sorts of things. Commodities, sure — agricultural products, oil and gas, metals, etc. — but also bonds and interest rates and stock indexes and volatility. If you want to bet on those things, or hedge your risks, you can trade futures on a commodities exchange.