FxWirePro: Trade in crude strangles on vol drop after OPEC and EIA
Dec 07, 2017 10:58 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
This weeks report was bullish for crude and bearish for gasoline and distillate. Total commercial crude and refined product stocks drew by 2.5 Mb to 1249.6 Mb. The stockdraw was led by a 5.6 Mb decline in crude oil stocks....
Dec 07, 2017 10:03 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
OTC outlook and options strategy: Please be noted that the positively skewed IVs of 1m tenors signify the hedgers interests to bid OTM put strikes upto 0.7425 levels (refer above diagram). While bearish neutral delta...
FxWirePro: Deploy short hedges on narrowed Aussie trade surplus
Dec 07, 2017 08:35 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Australias trade surplus narrowed 93 percent to AUD 0.1 billion in October of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 1.60 billion in the prior month and way below market expectations of AUD 1.4 billion. It was the smallest...
FxWirePro: BTC skyrockets the pace on the brink of derivatives market developments
Dec 07, 2017 07:47 am UTC| Digital Currency Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Lets just know as to how the Bitcoin price (or any other cryptocurrencies) seems to have exceeded the expectations briefly for the first time in this week before we proceed further with why it has shown such a movement;...
Dec 07, 2017 00:47 am UTC| Research & Analysis
The 2018 outlook for US exchanges and other trading venue operators and retail brokers is positive, owing to increased profitability and steady to lower debt leverage for the collective group, Moodys Investors Service...
FxWirePro: Wise to buy straddles Euro rates on hedging grounds
Dec 06, 2017 12:36 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Demand/Supply equation: On the demand side, investment grade retail funds saw an inflow of 800mm (0.6% of AUM) last week. This was a reduction from the record inflows of 1.6bn last week. While last week saw a solid 10.7bn...
FxWirePro: USD/JPY Option Knock-in set-up ahead of BoJ and Fed
Dec 06, 2017 12:30 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The Japanese yen has vented higher more recently than that (up 16% vs USD and 25% against GBP in 1H 2016 for example). Thats a reminder that when a currency is as cheap as the yen (USDJPY PPP is at 103 according to the...
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