A futures market has a prediction going out years into the future of what every financial variable will be doing, so you can see the future in a sense through the futures prices.

一个期货交易市场,预测了未来几年,每个金融变量的变化,因此,在某种意义上,你们可以通过期货价格分析未来市场

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In many cases that is not the right way to think about futures prices, but there are very important futures markets that--In the next lecture I want to talk about the various kinds of futures markets that matter.

在许多情况下,我们不应该去,分析期货价格,但我们的期货交易市场很重要...,下节课我会讲,各种不同的期货交易市场

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