Trader (finance)
A trader is someone in finance who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives.
Traders are either professionals working in a financial institution or a corporation, or individual investors, or day traders. They buy and sell financial instruments traded in the stock markets, derivatives markets and commodity markets, comprising the stock exchanges, derivatives exchanges and the commodities exchanges. Several categories and designations for diverse kinds of traders are found in finance, these may include:
See also
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Trading
- Commodities exchange
- Commodity market
- Derivatives market
- List of trading losses
- Stock exchange
- Stock market
- Trading strategy