FX positioning, as per Morgan Stanley... Market long CHF and short NOK

EURUSD

you know, when a bank puts out a reco for whatever portfolio, its not just 10 mil that gets traded. But there is billions more in client orders that track the given portfolio in question... I think that comes from a portfolio sized at about 100 mil, ...

EURUSD

this is DTCC data, every US bank has to publish all their OTC trades, and therefore it is publicly available. You don't get to see who trades what but you see all the trades in all the detail. more on that can be seen here - video

AUD/USD

its not me, it a hedge fund trading with a US counterparty.

AUD/USD

Decent AUDUSD Options volume so far. Large American Hedge fund trading that AUDUSD doesn't drop below 0.88 by Thursday.

AUD/USD

well from this yes, but this is merely the last hours trade, there were many, many more throughout the day. This was just a lot of volume for this time of day

EURUSD

Lots of EURUSD options traded into a friday close. broadly speaking, a pretty bearish view from the options traders

EURUSD

big test coming up. Reuters data shows the trendline coming in at 1.3899 as its a 5 yr line, don't be *too* surprised to see 1.40 (maybe) but if it fails and drops under 1.3750, things aren't looking so good for bulls

EURUSD

it spiked 450 pips!! so yeah, news does matter, a lot.

EURUSD

well im only in a cheeky little short at 82, looking for 50. nothing much.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

GBP is diverging from money flow, and also far above VWAP for no reason, looking for shorts now

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

EURUSD storming away from VWAP for no actual reason... just sayin. volume mild at most on the move higher

EURUSD

for the record, USDJPY traded at 105

USD/JPY Discussion

not quite, options are the most levered asset class that is around (if we exclude the >100:1 retail FX world) and when we consider the definition of leverage to be < Notional value of trade / amount YÓU put up (whether its called premium or margin ...

Let's Trade Options

considering rough numbers, if you were paying 950 premium for a EURUSD option and it was ATM then 950 would be somewhere like 150,000 notional for a front contract (2 weeks) so that is about 150,000/950 so that in itself is over 100 leverage, so ...

Let's Trade Options

Bit late, but here was the MS FX daily recos interesting how their short term look has shifted bearish.

EURUSD

17-Dec-2013 22:35 - RBA GOV STEVENS SAYS A$ STILL UNCOMFORTABLY HIGH 17-Dec-2013 22:35 - RBA'S STEVENS SAYS CHINA IS GROWING AT A SOLID PACE 17-Dec-2013 22:35 - RBA GOV STEVENS SAYS A$ HAS BEHAVED MORE AS EXPECTED RECENTLY 17-Dec-2013 22:36 - RBA ...

AUD/USD

Ideas going into FOMC tomorrow HSBC + RBS and a link to some actual research from Soc Gen - url n.b. if you want full reports just ask

EURUSD

also, for those fans of technicals, here is there performance on recent technical based trades

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