Online futures traders can be broadly divided into two large groups as Hedgers and Speculators according to the trading style they follow.
Hedgers are online futures traders trading for price certainty. They are simply like companies, who issues stocks to markets. They trade futures contracts of their products, either directly produced by them or possessed by them, in fear of loss at the actual selling time. Hedgers include both commodity futures traders – who trade agricultural or energy products or metals and financial futures traders - who trade currencies, stocks, bonds, treasury notes etc.
