Who TradesThe participants and what each is trying to do.Accounting & FinanceParticipants and motives.ParticipantsRetail investorsPension and insurance fundsHedge fundsMarket makersCentral banksMotivesLong-term saving and incomeMatching liabilities over decadesAbsolute return, often leveragedProviding liquidity for the spreadPolicy, not profitMarket makers quote both sides and earn the spread. They provideliquidity but are not obliged to in a crisis.Who Tradeslearnposters.com
Who Trades — printable business wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Who Trades poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

Participants and motives.

Market makers quote both sides and earn the spread. They provide liquidity but are not obliged to in a crisis.

Questions about the Who Trades poster

What’s on the Who Trades poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. Participants and motives. Participants: Retail investors, Pension and insurance funds, Hedge funds, Market make…; Motives: Long-term saving and income, Matching liabilities over decades, Absolute ret…. Market makers quote both sides and earn the spread. They provide liquidity but are not obliged to in a crisis.
Who is the Who Trades poster for?
Who Trades belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning markets & instruments can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Who Trades poster?
Different participants have different objectives, and prices are the result. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Who Trades belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Who Trades?
Asset Classes & Claims, Currency Markets and Derivatives sit alongside Who Trades in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Asset Classes & ClaimsCurrency MarketsDerivatives
Is the Who Trades poster free to download and print?
Yes. Who Trades downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Who Trades poster print at?
Who Trades is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Who Trades loses nothing.Printing guide

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