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The neutral-negative risk reversal numbers are still indicating hedging sentiments for the potential bearish risks across all tenors remain intact, while positively skewed IVs of the 3m tenor also signifies the hedgers’ interests in OTM put strikes.
These skews signal underlying spot FX to drop below 128 levels. While glance through above nutshell evidencing risk reversals, although these numbers have been bearish neutral for longer tenor but bearish risk sentiment remain intact on any negative fundamental driving forces, to substantiate this stance we can observe the 2nd highest hedging sentiments for bearish risks of this pair among G10 FX space after USDJPY.
Well, to substantiate this standpoint, if you observe the technical chart of this pair, the major trend was rising higher upto 61.8% Fibonacci levels from the lows of 109.205 levels but couldn’t sustain these level, while bearish pattern candles such as hanging man and gravestone doji pop up to signal weakness as leading oscillators indicate struggling momentum. The momentum indicators have been substantiating selling pressures in this consolidation phase (refer monthly chart). For more reading, refer our technical section.
Hence, keeping the both OTC and technical factors in mind, it is advisable to initiate below relative value trades.
Options strategies for hedging:
Buy 2M EUR puts/JPY calls vs. sell 2M 28D EUR puts/KRW calls for directional traders.
Buy 2m EURJPY ATM -0.49 delta puts for aggressive bears on hedging grounds.
Sell 4M EURJPY 25D risk-reversal (buy EUR calls - sell EUR puts), delta-hedged for risk-averse traders.
Currency Strength Index: FxWirePro's hourly EUR spot index is flashing at 46 levels (which is bullish), while hourly JPY spot index was at -158 (highly bearish) while articulating at 08:40 GMT. For more details on the index, please refer below weblink:
http://www.fxwirepro.com/currencyindex
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