The U.S. debt crisis caused economic turmoil once again and also the outbreak of systemic risk in global stock markets and commodity markets. LME nickel prices plummeted, triggering the risk of a sharp decline in China’s domestic market. Under this environment, China stainless steel electronic trading exchange played an important role in hedging, providing a good platform for the traders to avoid the risk. It is just only two months after the creation of a turnover of 23,000 tons. Exchange of nickel contracts hit a new high record in the two consecutive trading days.

On August 5, the total traded volume of nickel contracts exceeded 25,000 ton; the main contract volume exceeded 23,000 ton. On August 8, the total traded volume of nickel contracts exceeded 29,500 ton; the main contract volume exceeded 26,000 ton. On October 2006, Forlink cooperated with South stainless steel market, jointly initiated and established the "China steel trade website", Forlink took the responsibility of software development and hardware implementation for the China steel trading website’s electronic trading platform.