Participants of Derivative market

1. Hedgers: those who are making investing to reduce the adverse price movement in an asset, normally by taking an offset position in a same or related asset

2. Speculators: those who wish to bet on future movements in the price of an asset and always looking for the advantage of the fluctuations

3. Arbitragers: those who work at making profit by taking advantage of discrepancy between prices of same product across different market.