To understand the trade of currency is to understand the need for speculation. Speculation has always been about managing the future, managing fear. Speculation is about ramping up the future value of currency in order to protect yourself, your knowledge, your property. You make bets that your value will grow. What we produce is merely manifestation of how well we protect ourselves going forward, and the more secure we are in the yield from our labor and the infrastructure on which we exchange value, the greater our currency.
It’s not a gamble when we speculate. It’s not a fool’s errand. It is a natural outgrowth of the prism of fear through which man views his world. Until we get rid of the fear, we will always speculate….
Alton Drew, Consiglieri 
The stock market is the world’s largest gambling casino, as is currency speculation.
Yes, but so is the world and the western philosophy the world is built on. That philosophy is built on uncertainty and fear. These markets are merely a reflection of that…