In finance, a trader is someone who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds and derivatives. A broker who simply fills buy or sell orders is not a trader, as they are merely executing instructions given to them.

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:

• stock trader
• day trader
• pattern day trader
• swing trader
• floor trader
• rogue trader

[edit] See also

• Trading strategy
• Commodities exchange
• Commodity market
• Stock exchange
• Stock market
• List of trading losses
• Derivatives market

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Trading