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The European recovery theme has become increasingly mainstream in recent weeks as continued Euro-area growth out-performance intersects with moderating political risks.
Last week, we opened an outright long EURUSD position in covered call format to go with a suite of other bullish Europe expressions (long SEK, CHF).
We list below a few other option-based expressions of Euro strength assuming that French elections deliver a market-friendly outcome:
EUR call flies: Our spot targets for EURUSD if Le Pen loses are relatively benign –in the range of 2-3 cents from current levels since neither positioning metrics nor deviations from high-frequency fair value models suggest that there is much political risk premium in the currency that requires de-pricing.
In addition, EUR options still pack in a reasonable amount of election risk premium despite their recent softening, which will almost certainly disappear after the passage of the event –a key reason to recommend covered calls in lieu of outright cash longs in the FX Markets Weekly macro portfolio.
EUR call/USD put flies can be rationalized on similar grounds: there isn’t much skew advantage to selling OTM EUR calls although they have normalized a tad as option-buying interest has picked up recently, but their short vega exposure helps defray part of the negative interest rate carry cost and call flies, on the whole, have become more reasonably priced of late (refer above chart).
Our preference is for RKI flies (RKI on the middle leg) where the trade-off of a few more bps in option premium for materially extended participation in the spot uptrend is an acceptable one. 2M 1.10 –1.12 with 1.14 RKI –1.14 EUR call/USD put flies cost ~30bp EUR (spot ref. 1.0680, max payout ratio 5.7 times if RKI triggered, 11.3 times if not).
