When she gets tense, her husband advises her to go visit that cheap doctor and buy some more needlepoint. Then a couple of years ago, the Chins were talking to friends who were talking a gamble trading foreign currency futures. That's what the futures market often is. The Chins decided to look into it. They started out trading in a very small way and it transformed their lives.
Currency trading is politics and economics all rolled into one.
Traders are betting on the economies of the world. For the Chins, it was revelation. Over the years, their focus had narrowed primarily to family and the needlepoint trade. It brought that same feeling of excitement found when they were building Twinkles. Currency trading also was extremely time-consuming.