Swiss bank accounts 101, or something different?
New question: what would be the safest currency to be holding right now, as a short-term way to minimize losses and a long-term way to achieve security? Then, how to go about converting everything to that, and where to keep it? Short term: Nobody knows. Making short-term currency trades to make money is basically impossible for an individual investor. Sure, trading currency is easy, but there is no secret source of information that will tell you which one is better than any other in the short term. Everyone has opinions, but that very rarely leads to profits. You can have a very well thought-out plan to buy X currency and see it appreciate versus Y currency, but there is always a large amount of risk because currency markets are very erratic. For example, there are a lot of people expecting the dollar to continue to depreciate versus other major currencies, but it has ben up significantly in the past few months. Long term: The safest currencies are those from large counties with a good
