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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/GBP ATM puts seem costlier as there exists disparity between IVs and premiums

Dec 03, 2015 09:19 am UTC| Technicals

Everyone dealing with Euro expecting ECB to increase easing volumes, but for now it seems unlikely that the QE volume has to be increased to 70, 75 or 80 billion and the deposit rate is lowered by 10, 15 or 20...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: EUR/JPY OTC market pricing in sync with IVs

Dec 03, 2015 07:05 am UTC| Technicals

Please observe the IV factor for ATM contracts with 1w expiries. It is taking off from last weeks 8% to a steep jump at 12.75% ahead of ECB meet today. On the flip side, as shown in the diagrammatic representation...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Reiteration of EURO’s vulnerability - EUR/USD diagonal PRBS hedges

Dec 02, 2015 09:43 am UTC| Technicals

Everyone expects ECB to increase easing volumes, but for now it seems unlikely that the QE volume has to be increased to 70, 75 or 80 billion and the deposit rate is lowered by 10, 15 or 20 bps. Euro Area CPI inflation...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: AUD/USD gamma calendar combination to hedge downside risks

Dec 02, 2015 07:54 am UTC| Technicals

As you can make out from the table the implied volatility for near month at the money contracts of AUDUSD pair has still been on higher side among G20 currency segment in the long run and is perceived to be at 11.5-11.75%...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Delta risk reversal re-ignites AUD/USD bearish trend to prolong

Dec 02, 2015 07:31 am UTC| Technicals

After the brief upswings to 0.7342, the OTC options market appears to be more balanced on the direction of the pair over next 1m to 1y time horizon as hedgers have been cautious on long term downtrend that has lasted since...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: WTI crude still weaker; a run through on hedging

Dec 01, 2015 12:05 pm UTC| Technicals

Although WTI crude has shown a little surge in its price, from last 3 days it was unable to sustain these gains, we look out for a drag up to 39.90 levels. The ongoing robust level of crude oil production is likely to...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Placing Put Ratio Back Spreads in USD/JPY’s puzzling swings mitigates downside risks

Dec 01, 2015 08:48 am UTC| Technicals

We could foresee lot of speculations happening around USDJPY currency cross. Despite last weeks preliminary Q/Q GDP in U.S. posted upbeat numbers at 2.1% which is an increase from previous 1.5% and trade deficit has...

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