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Also known as financial trader, securities trader

businessperson who exchanges stocks, bonds and other such financial instruments

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Encyclopedic overview

A trader is a person, firm, or entity in finance who buys and sells financial instruments, such as forex, cryptocurrencies, stocks, bonds, commodities, derivatives, mutual funds, and indices in the capacity of an agent, hedger, arbitrager, or speculator.

Duties and types

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “trader” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.