So let's look at an average sugar deal between a buyer an seller, facilitated by a trained trader. The contract is for 10,000 metric tonnes a month for 1 year which is actually considered standard. It's worth mentioning that 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000 metric tonnes monthly shipments are also common within this industry, but to make it digestible, let's stick to a bare minimum of 10,000 metric tonnes.

So the above scenario, a typical trade being 10,000 metric tonnes of sugar per month being sold over a one year contract, with a typical broker facilitating this expecting to make for themselves anything from $1.00 to $5.00 'per metric tonne' in commission. Let's say for arguments sake, it's $1 per tonne commission and everything has gone according to plan, and the contracts have been signed, all protocols have been met and approved, the broker is looking based on a minimum of $1.00 per tonne, to be earning themselves $10,000 per month for the next year, and all from only 1 single trade, sounds too good to be true? well it's real and again you now begin to understand why this industry has been kept private for almost two centuries in the hands of rich merchant traders and let's face it, greedy bankers.

That said, consider the average broker is working on anything up to 5 trades a month, and more, so a simple common sense calculation can quite easily show the vast potential within the industry, and with literally countless hundreds of thousands of transactions on a daily basis, you can begin to see how this industry as a rule of thumb, is the single most lucrative industry on the planet, and responsible for the continual movement of the global economy, yet not effected at all by any recession or economic problems.

Now, going back in comparison to the average worker earning themselves perhaps £30,000 annually, minus his expenses and taxes, who do you think will be better of in the long run? The answers is simple, and anyone who can do basic mathematics can quite easily work the answer out.