FxWirePro: Costless FX options combinations to confront event risk from Riksbank and ECB

Sep 29, 2017 13:31 pm UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The FX option prices are not priced in the unambiguously positive asymmetry of Swedish Krona spot outcomes. Prices of at-expiry digital (AED) options would be construed as probabilities of spot ending at or beyond strike...

Sterling OTC shrugs off EU’s optimism on Brexit negotiations, Shift in RRs in sync with FxWirePro’s prediction ahead of October summit

Sep 29, 2017 10:43 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

GBPUSD overview: The reversal higher yesterday has held intra-day resistance in the 1.3445/55 region. A run back through here would open a stronger move towards 1.3540-1.3590. However, the 1.37-1.39 region is seen as...

FxWirePro: “Hawks not to bark at the wrong tree” on luring USTs – Stay positioned in choosy long dollars on more balanced bullish VXY bias in Q4

Sep 29, 2017 09:37 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

This write-up is just anattempt of routing trade flows in theright direction rather than having speculative moves that blow-out-of-the proportion due to the recent significant data flows from the central banks. The Fed...

FxWirePro: Hedging reshuffling for Bullion risks – OTM call writing on its effective functionality, append delta put to convert 3-way straddle into strips

Sep 29, 2017 07:27 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

For now, we all know that the dollar getting some traction, in response to Janet Yellens hawkish rhetoric while delivering speech at the NABE annual conference. Its was up by no more than 0.5% against any currency. The Fed...

RBI likely to keep policy unchanged as inflation looms, says Goldman Sachs Research

Sep 29, 2017 06:52 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy

The Reserve Bank of India is scheduled to conclude its two-day monetary policy meeting on October 4 at 09:00 GMT. We expect the central bank will maintain status quo on policy rates as inflation seen rising towards the RBI...

FxWirePro: ECB, bearish neutral RRs and IV skews but Swiss franc no longer overvalued to signal OTM call writing in collars

Sep 28, 2017 12:35 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

Before we proceed through the core part of this write up, lets have a glance through the implied volatilities of EURCHF ATM contracts from the above nutshell, IVs of this underlying pair of all expiries have still been the...

FxWirePro: Global central banks’ policy shift and frontiers on VXY valuations

Sep 28, 2017 10:57 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The Fed was far from the only monetary policy game in town this week, and FX markets were as much driven by an ongoing repricing of BoE, policy rhetoric surprises in NOK, JPY, and to a lesser extent AUD. Rather than a...