The act of buying and selling financial instruments, such as money markets spot instruments, stocks, bonds, commodities, virtual currencies, indices, futures, options, CFD-s and other derivatives, performed on a for-profit basis.
Trading in general and speculative trading are a form of participation in a process of mutually beneficial exchange.
Speculative trading is a knowingly speculative, for-profit, participation in a multi-layer scene of sell-side and buy-side market participants ( liquidity providers ), brokerage entities / mediators, market regulators ( where territorially applicable and legally enforced ) and retail traders.
Markets typically offer trading in both Buy ( a.k.a. Long ) and Sell ( Short ) contract positions for various financial instruments such as:
- money markets spot contracts,
- ETF contracts,
- virtual currencies,
- stocks,
- bonds,
- commodities,
- indices,
- futures,
- options,
- options on index,
- non-deliverable swaps,
- CFD-s and other derivatives.
