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Amid highly volatile economic environment, shielding currency exposure has become too risky than before. In this series we provide an intelligent insights and analysis on actionable FX derivative strategies that serve different levels of risk appetites and returns.

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: EUR/JPY 1w IVs to favor writers, bearish pace to decelerate – Arrest tepid dips via butterfly put spreads

Dec 29, 2016 12:55 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Although the bearish swings in themajor trend of EURJPY seemto be threatening, you observe range bounded trend has been persisting from last fortnight or so (upper range at 123.507 and lower range at 121.734...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

What FxWirePro anticipates with WTI call spreads, Irag targets the same

Dec 29, 2016 10:48 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Yes, we at FxWirePro have constantly been calling for bullish figures on WTI crude oil prices in our write ups on hedging and technical analysis sections. Subsequently, the optimal hedging vehicles have also been advocated...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: AUD/JPY swings move in sync with 1M ATM IVs – Capitalizing on dips and HY vols likely to favor PRBS

Dec 29, 2016 10:08 am UTC| Research & Analysis

Please be noted that the IVs of ATM contracts of 1m and 2w tenors are spiking shy above 11.7% and 12.75% respectively, this has been justified by historical volatilities in spot FX fluctuations (see big real body candles...

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FxWirePro: USD/MXN bulls hover above DMAs and EMAs in rising wedge formation but with lacking momentum – Strangle shorts to speculate

Dec 28, 2016 13:23 pm UTC| Technicals

On daily terms, the current prices spike after testing support at 7DMA, rallies well supported with bullish DMA crossover but no momentum confirmation. The price upswings are going in rising wedge on weekly terms, the...

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FxWirePro: WTI edges above $54, call spread targets $60 despite implieds likely to dip after OPEC but forwards to chase 1y risk reversals

Dec 28, 2016 11:57 am UTC| Research & Analysis

Crude oil futures for February delivery on the NYME tacked on 21 cents, or 0.39%, edges higher to $54.11 a barrel by 09:20GMT, after climbing 88 cents, or 1.66%, a day earlier. This bullish sentiment is majorly due to less...

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FxWirePro: Surging Mexican trade balance due to rising exports to fuel USD/MXN appreciation – Moneyness of vanilla options for exports payables

Dec 28, 2016 11:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Research & Analysis

The Mexican peso has been one among the worst performers in the EMFX market during the two months.USDMXN today spiked back toward the 20.80 zone. The pair rose from 20.60 to 20.77. It was trading at 20.75, up 0.72% for...

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FxWirePro: Try USD/JPY butterfly put spreads for range bounded trend and dreary IVs, uphold ITM and OTM longs to capitalize on 1w skews

Dec 28, 2016 09:15 am UTC| Research & Analysis

From last 2 weeks, USDJPY bull trend remains stuck in an 117-118.500 range (weve seen thenon-directional trend and shrinking bullish momentum in our recent technical write up). Thus, we continue to foresee the sideways...

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