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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

Market 1 Market 2 Market 3 Market 4

Classic cars 72 Extreme The costliest thing on the site simply to keep: an asset that needs servicing to hold its value.
Fine art 69 Extreme Maximum expertise and minimum protection, where the paperwork can be worth more than the paint and the round trip costs a third.

	Classic cars	Fine art
Exit difficulty	4	5
Volatility	4	4
Leverage	1	1
Carry cost	5	4
Fraud risk	4	4
Protection gap	5	5
Barrier to entry	3	2
Expertise needed	5	5
Difficulty	72 Extreme	69 Extreme
In a sentence	Mechanical objects whose value rests on originality, history and a specific chassis number — with running costs that quietly consume the returns.	A market where the same object can be worth £5,000 or £5m depending on attribution, provenance and who else is in the room.
Unit	One vehicle	One work
Smallest realistic trade	A few thousand pounds upward	A few hundred pounds at the low end; no upper limit
Settlement	On collection, with V5C transfer	Payment on invoice, collection after clearance

The fingerprint measures how demanding a market is to take part in. It is not a rating or a recommendation.