From the nutshell, one can understand that 25-delta risk of reversal of EURCHF has been one of the expensive pairs to be hedged for downside risks in long run as it indicates puts have been relatively costlier. It shows the 3rd highest negative values among G10 segment which indicates downside risks of spot FX is anticipated and hedging for such risks is relatively more expensive.
The OTC options market appeared to be more balanced on the direction for the pair over the 1m to 1y time horizon as hedgers have been cautious on long term downtrend.
But, lower IVs of ATM contracts have been favourable for option writers and if you any disparity between option premiums then that should turn into a cause of concern as to whether spot FX would move in sync with risk reversals or not.
The current IVs of this pair is at 2.26%, and 4.67% for 1m tenors.
Usually, lower IV pair like this would certainly offer best writing opportunities in overpriced options.
As a result of writing options we could utilize this profitability to reduce in cost of owning spot outrights, so keeping shorting oriented option strategies in mind one can think of certain yields through Ratio Call Write as upside potential is constrained by risk reversals indications.
Hence, this strategy owns a holding of the underlying spot FX and sells more calls than shares owned. It is a limited profit, unlimited risk options trading strategy that is taken when the options trader thinks that the underlying stock price will experience little volatility in the near term.
A 2:1 call ratio write can be implemented by selling double the number of at the money calls for every number of spot FX units.
The main advantage for the ratio call write is when the underlying spot FX at expiration is at the strike price of the options sold.
At this price, both the written calls expire worthless while the value of the long spot position remains unchanged. As such, the options trader gets to keep all of the premiums received when putting on the trade in spot. Thus, maximum profit is equal to the premiums received from the sale of call options.
So, to achieve this, the calls writing should have positive theta values as it is usually expressed as the change in option's value per one day’s passage of time.


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