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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

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 72 Extreme The costliest thing on the site simply to keep: an asset that needs servicing to hold its value.

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

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