# Traders

Those are persons who have acquired NEOK for trading purposes from the secondary market and have no connection to NEOKingdom DAO (i.e., they are not DAO members or shareholders):

* they can apply to become investors;
* they can sell NEOK on the secondary market whenever they want;
* their NEOK is not taken into account while calculating the allotment of the NEOKingdom DAO ownership, governance, or dividend rights between all of its members.

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