Oct 19, 2015 12:41 pm UTC| Technicals
USD/CHF has broken trend line resistance 0.9540 (trend line joining 0.9736 and 0.9645) and this confirms short term bullishness, a jump till 0.9650 cannot be ruled out. On the downside major weakness can be seen only...
FxWirePro: A briefing on cable’s delta-gamma hedging
Oct 19, 2015 12:39 pm UTC| Technicals
Let us ponder over the delta-hedged at-the-money call option. As shown in the figure, this GBPUSD call option has almost 50% delta (being at-the-money call), so we need to sell half as many lots of the underlying as we own...
FxWirePro: EUR/USD key resistance at 1.1404, bearish in the short term
Oct 19, 2015 12:26 pm UTC| Technicals
The EUR/USD pair has continued to decline, as the euro is broadly sold across the board ahead of Thursdays ECB meeting wherein, ECB is set to continue its stimulus programme. The pair is trading below daily pivot point...
Why should underlying collateral not be stagnant for option strips?
Oct 19, 2015 12:02 pm UTC| Technicals
For demonstration we consider the EURUSD OTM instruments while formulating option strips strategy. Scenario 1: What if underlying moves down: The puts we deploy were not very far off from the ATM strike and cheap too...
FxWirePro: Strong support for EUR/PLN at 4.2278, good to go long on dips
Oct 19, 2015 11:49 am UTC| Technicals
Data earlier today showed that Poland inflation missed expectations, came in at 0.2 pct y/y in Sept vs 0.4 pct seen in Reuters poll Polands statistics office also revised 2014 GDP growth to 3.3 pct from 3.4 pct...
GBP/JPY faces strong resistance at 185.30, break above targets 187/187.40
Oct 19, 2015 11:32 am UTC| Technicals
GBP/JPY faces strong resistance around 185.30 and overall trend reversal can happen above that level. Any break above 185.30 targets 187/187.45 in short term. On the downside minor support is around 184.40 and...
FxWirePro: Buy GBP/USD only above 1.5500 with SL around 1.5450 for the TP of 1.5580/1.5600
Oct 19, 2015 11:28 am UTC| Technicals
GBP/USD is facing trend line resistance around 1.5500 (trend line joining 1.5658 and 1.5585) and any break above confirms major trend reversal, a jump till 1.5580/1.5600/1.5650 is possible. On the downside minor...