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

EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Wheat 53 Tough A hedger's market — leveraged futures, weather-driven swings and basis risk that only specialists price well.
  • Copper 50 Demanding A professional market that individuals can mostly reach only through leverage — so the shape leans towards leverage and cycle risk.
  Wheat Copper
Exit difficulty 2 2
Volatility 4 4
Leverage 4 4
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 3 3
Expertise needed 4 3
Difficulty 53 Tough 50 Demanding
In a sentence The commodity that feeds more people than any other, hedged by farmers and millers and traded on weather forecasts from four continents.The metal that wires everything, watched closely enough as an economic indicator to have earned the nickname Dr Copper.
Unit Bushel (US) or metric tonne (Europe) Metric tonne (LME) or pound (COMEX)
Smallest realistic trade CME lot of 5,000 bushels; ICE London feed wheat in 100-tonne lots One LME lot of 25 tonnes; retail via ETC or spread bet
Settlement Physical delivery against warehouse receipts, or cash settlement LME dates including the distinctive three-month prompt

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