How do Financial Markets work?

With the Old Traditional ways of banking and finance becoming obsolete, Becoming Your Own Bank is almost like a necessity… Not to mention surface-level problems that we all face in our economy such as inflation and a higher cost of living which strengthens the fact that we have to use this technology and become our own banks …  One of the major ways we do this is by trading… Trading is the buying and selling of financial instruments in the financial markets… Various Markets are traded such as The Foreign Exchange Market, The CryptoCurrency Market,  The Stock Market, The Futures Market etc…These Markets are comprised of many participants such as Banks, Governments, Corporations, Hedge Funds, then people like you and me which are referred to as Retail Investors & Traders… The bigger participants are referred to as Market Makers and can move markets with their massive exposure to volume and unprecedented leverage… These movements have a direct correlation to the economy, with this being a digitalized version of global imports and exports, GDP, and other factors that fuel our economies.