trading vs mercantilism

trading and mercantilism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trading	Yes	No	No	No
mercantilism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mercantilism is a hypernym of trading; that is, mercantilism is a word with a broader meaning than trading:

trading: buying or selling securities or commodities
mercantilism: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Other hypernyms of trading include commerce, commercialism.

trading (noun)	mercantilism (noun)
buying or selling securities or commodities	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
	an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests