Oct 05, 2017 13:03 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
One of the most visible effects of this years dollar weakness is the relentless narrowing of risk-reversals in USD pairs, particularly since mid-Q2 once the French elections were out of the way. Initially, softer...
FxWirePro: Uphold Vega longs in NZD/JPY diagonal options straps to serve dual objectives
Oct 05, 2017 12:25 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
If you could observe from the technical charts of NZDJPY in the recent past, it has shown a considerable resilience, (observe bearish candles with big real bodies of previous months, refer above technical chart), we...
Oct 05, 2017 11:29 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
NZDJPY bears resume with hanging man and bearish engulfing patterns at 82.110 and 80.979 levels respectively, in minor trend and gravestone doji and shooting star at 80.985 and 82.811 levels respectively in the major...
FxWirePro: Crux between EM bond yield, EMFX, and EMFX vols
Oct 05, 2017 09:39 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
We examine three factors EM FX, EM FX volatility, and foreign net buying/selling of local bonds to see how different regimes influence valuation misalignments since 2012. Some general conclusions are stated below: EM...
FxWirePro: Platinum takes two to tango, offload shorts to book yields and jump on bandwagon
Oct 05, 2017 09:27 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
In this write-up, we emphasize to take half profit on short Jan18 NYMEX platinum owing to few fundamental drivers. Stringent emissions standards in China (the worlds major auto market), are serving to drive the price of...
FxWirePro: Target Theta shorts in NZD/USD diagonal credit put spreads to sync with 2w/2m IV skews
Oct 05, 2017 07:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
NZDUSD has continued its consolidation phase since last May to take rallies upto 0.7519 (i.e. 50% Fibonacci retracements from the lows of 0.6196). For now, it has managed to broke below 0.7170 minor support, signaling a...
Oct 05, 2017 05:57 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
In our previous write up, we traced heaps of bearish indications for NZDUSD, consequently, weve been seeing steep slumps from the last three months. The major trend seems to have been exhausted at 50% Fibonacci...
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