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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: Delta hedging of USD/CAD ATM calls as uptrend seems to be puzzling

Nov 09, 2015 13:08 pm UTC| Technicals

The prevailing uptrend of USD/CAD seems to be exhausted in an attempt to evidence months high, for now the pair is looking weaker as it was unable to sustain 1.3316 (2 months highs). The leading oscillating indicator...

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FxWirePro: Low IVs portray Condor Spreads construction on EUR/CHF

Nov 09, 2015 12:44 pm UTC| Technicals

As there are significant data releases scheduled on CHF side for this week and near future EURCHF is likely to experience low volatility. You can make out from the nutshell, EURCHF is to have the least IV. Off-late,...

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FxWirePro: AUD/USD put writers on upper hand favoured by IV - use rallies to deploy shorts in PRBS

Nov 09, 2015 10:38 am UTC| Technicals

As you can observe from the diagram the implied volatility for near month at the money contracts of this APAC pair has been highest among G20 currency pool after EURUSD and is seen 11.5% for 1w expiry. While delta risk...

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FxWirePro: AUD/USD relentless downswings on breach of 0.7140, binary puts for target 60 pips

Nov 09, 2015 10:19 am UTC| Technicals

A resembling bearish Marubozu pattern occurred at 0.7035 levels to confirm the breach of supports at 0.7140 levels. Previously, a gravestone doji was occurred at the same levels on daily charts and the trend on this...

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FxWirePro: EUR/JPY may extend slumps – short on rallies via binary puts

Nov 09, 2015 10:11 am UTC| Technicals

EUR/JPY is nearing a decisive resistance levels at 133.096 where it has rejected and bounced several times, the pair has shown the supply and demand sentiments quite a lot of times in the recent times as well (see circled...

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FxWirePro: EUR/JPY may extend slumps – short on rallies via binary puts

Nov 09, 2015 09:00 am UTC| Technicals

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FxWirePro: USD/JPY call backspread derives maximum yields - unload weights

Nov 09, 2015 07:32 am UTC| Technicals

At the money calls seems costlier which divulges the market sentiments for USD/JPY pair (NPV of 1w ATM 50% delta call is 43703.88 while premiums trading above 23.93% at JPY 54162.77 for lot size 100,000 units). From the...

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