that would kind of work, but you would not want to be perfectly delta hedged so that you beat the forward rates (as per expiration of puts) so to win, one would have to have some slight delta, therefore meaning you have some AUD exposure. Pretty ...

USD/JPY Discussion

I didn't say options. In fact it would be harder with options.

USD/JPY Discussion

unfortunately my account can't link to FF, that is because I use FXall. But I know of a fun way in which you can prove you know how to trade. Lets say you were bullish Aussie rates, but didn't want un hedged AUD exposure, how would you position in ...

USD/JPY Discussion

thats 5:1. not 50:1. you can get greater than 20:1 on up to trades of about 20 million USD. After that margin requirements go up hugely. i.e. for a normal 50 million USD trade that goes through every minute or so, there would be around 5-10 million ...

USD/JPY Discussion

just so you know, for a 200 million USD trade on the interbank market you would need an account size at least of 40 million USD. unless you use options where you can get maybe 10:1 leverage. So all in all. complete BS.

USD/JPY Discussion

GBPUSD rejection of daily trendline. 1.6338 lows in sight

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

what don't you understand?

EURUSD

Soc Gen short term reco on USDCAD

USD/CAD

3 USDJPY related charts / notes from morgan stanley.

USD/JPY Discussion

Not sure most Swiss would understand what en fuego means, but options market makers would get on a day like today USDCHF vols were uber bid today with the front end particularly firm both outright and vs EURUSD 1m traded 8.45-8.6-8.65 vs 8.2 on the ...

EURUSD

well true, I probably should have been more specfic. far more illiquid relative to Future options and OTC FX cash options. I mostly just hedge FX spot positions with Options ideas. either as synthetic stops or leveraged carry generation etc etc. Vol ...

Let's Trade Options

why dont you just trade Futures options for FX? i.e. options on EURUSD futures from CME. you can get options on FXE for example but quite illiquid to say the least

Let's Trade Options

EURUSD option trades > $140,000,000 from today. ALL are bearish trades either selling calls or buying puts.

EURUSD

exactly the point. Option expiries act as magnets for price.

EURUSD

yup, coincides with big fib levels, a good area if you want long JPY exposure against the crosses imo

USD/JPY Discussion

I know that the FX spot desk gets back on Monday for Morgan stanley and credit suisse. Most will likely be similar. Until then - low liquidity and volumes.

EURUSD

it has been trading all day... here's a quote.

EURUSD

when did it stop??? (hint : it didn't)

EURUSD

<DTCCSDRFXO> on reuters <SDR> GO on bbg

AUD/USD

about 5 posts under the one you quote I said this url

AUD/USD