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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.
| Airport slots | Fishing quota | |
|---|---|---|
| Exit difficulty | 5 | 4 |
| Volatility | 3 | 3 |
| Leverage | 2 | 2 |
| Carry cost | 3 | 2 |
| Fraud risk | 1 | 1 |
| Protection gap | 4 | 4 |
| Barrier to entry | 5 | 5 |
| Expertise needed | 5 | 4 |
| Difficulty | 63 Extreme | 53 Tough |
| In a sentence | Permission to use a runway at a given time on a given day — worth tens of millions of pounds at Heathrow, and not, technically, owned by anyone. | The right to catch a tonne of a named species in a named area — created by law, concentrated in remarkably few hands, and worth more than the boats. |
| Unit | A slot pair: one arrival and one departure | Fixed Quota Allocation units, converted to tonnes annually |
| Smallest realistic trade | A single slot pair | Units traded between vessel owners and producer organisations |
| Settlement | Transfer approved and recorded by the slot coordinator | Transfer recorded by the fisheries authority |
The fingerprint measures how demanding a market is to take part in. It is not a rating or a recommendation.