Hopefully, MF Gobal's failure will put a fork in the trust of futures markets. Only hell knows how far out from there the counterparty risks spreads out, especially since CME is a criminal organization in the business to fleece people of their money, especially when it comes to futures manipulations in the gold and silver market. Currently, there is an investigation into the silver manipulation on the part of several big shorts in that market, notably JP Morgan. You will not believe what comes out of that one.