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I see almost no product difference. Same burger, cheese, fried, ice cream etc that they've been using for ages. I think if anything their product looks relatively worse be because many chains have raised the bar such as five guys etc

I will say this... In order to learn how to trade profitably, you need to survive over time. That is the reason why I think you're tilting the odds into lottery range if you don't have some sort of other income. At least for me, and two of the three other successful traders that I know...

Ya that seems like a market that's already well served, but who knows...

Speaking of various futures markets, I'm surprised there aren't junk bond futures to track the Merrill Lynch Masters High Yield Index. Also, why did the CME real estate futures not take off? Shocked at their low volume. Sorry to derail your thread....

McDonald's needs a lot of employees because people expect their food fast. Their menu has become too big, so they have operational difficulties which requires more labor than would be necessary with a simplified menu.

The problem with a spread thread, is Bone will be here shortly to turn this into a lecture/infomercial for his service.

Agreed, it's always about timing in this game. If it were as easy at crunching a few numbers and saying "that's overvalued" or "that's undervalued" and then making money, it would be too easy and everyone would be doing it.

I don't think they're worth $1b either but the beautiful thing about our system is that if you think it's overvalued you can short it.

Harry Browne's well known Permanent Portfio is: 25% Stocks 25% Gold 25% Cash/Short Term Treasuries 25% Long Term Treasuries I keep a pretty nice chunk of my cash in the Permanent Portfolio. There are many articles and books on that portfolio as well.

No, you're a total idiot if you think the SNB or any CB for that matter has to set their country's monetary policy around highly leveraged traders. That's just silly.

The amount of hate for rich traders on a trading website is an interesting phenomenon

Maybe you have watched the news, but the Democrats re-introduced the financial transaction tax last week. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/transaction-tax-plan-brings-fresh-wall-street-battle-to-capitol-hill-2015-01-12

It's a non-starter for the next two years, but you can see what the point of attack will be in 2016 for the Dems.

Sounding like a rescue is in the works

You and I are arguing the same point, but apparently you're not understanding me. I was making a broad point, that this is a good reminder that the entire system is fragile. This is why I keep 80% of my money in mutual funds because I am not interested in seeing my entire net worth vanish...

Where have I even done any math? I could care less if a few spot fx traders are wiped out. My point is how easily highly leveraged brokers can be wiped out when offering insane leverage. Thankfully I was long DX futures when it happened.

Wow, that's rough. It is a great reminder to use reasonable leverage because you never know when a black swan event is going to hit. 30+% moves in a currency that is often leveraged 50-to-1 is a recipe for disaster.

Because this is basically a duplicate post from your previous yen post. Both are clearly aimed at generating business for your service. You post in the plural form ("we think that...."), because that's how funds talk, which you think will add to your credibility and initiate intrigue on this...

Remember with a reset like this, you will have plenty of opportunity to get it back

LOL this is like Groundhog Day. Why didn't you just post in your other yen correlation thread just below this one? Must be slow month at wealthybuckets for sign ups...