The forward rates are what the market thinks the interest rate differential might be in say 1 years time? - no its not. Does this take into account differential interest rates right now? yes You can trade different tenors of forwards to recieve ...

this might help you... its with regard to forward rates being discounted to prevent arbitrage... url

Fair comments, however I really do have exams soon, may 13th is my first. And uni is quite important. But come early July I am more than happy to partake in a small traing contest, and infact quite look forward to it. But I thank you for stepping ...

Was a genuine question regarding education, how am I to know.it was not meant to be insulting, sorry if it is seen that way. Im a confused why you keepvsaying irrelevant answers, frankly I'm not evensure what the point of this has been. I have ...

So you're a millIonaire that sits on forums all day? Hmm ok. Once again, I feel we deviate from the crux, I am here to help people, I don't need to brag about the trades I have made just to boost my reputation on the forum As you will note earlier I ...

Neither irrelevant. 1st point, I could be wrong. It was a value judgement on my experience of him frequenting this forum often, if he is not, fine. What is your job magix? 2nd point. I have exams, I don't know if you are formally educated but ...

lol, ok. I think someone is a little mad... maybe you should calm down, did you blow your account? or is it your time of the month?

On the first point, different levels of volatility cause the greeks to behave very differently, relationships like vega/theta are different at a vol level of 6 and 10. Also a key pont to consider is gamma, if the market is short gamma, the market ...

you know cash is a position, right? A good tip for you, you shouldn't force a trade. not every session will there be a set-up worth taking. You don't need to have a position every minute of everyday I know people that have gone >1 week without a ...

yes.

well as said, the volatilty smile determines the relative vol to the upside and downside. Volatility for 1.60 strikes in GBPUSD will be far more expensive than 1.8 strikes, because the market knows the positioning is very long, and so a fall lower ...

Should add, actual vol tends to be lower than implied vol as the market normally overpays to hedge. imagine you are a trader and you haven't hedged a position and there is a huge move, your risk manager is going to be very mad. so most tend to ...

Implied/expected volatility is lower in GBPUSD than EURUSD, therefore you would expect a lower % move in either direction (depending to some extent on the volatility smile (colourful one) (both attached) But implied/realized is not always correct, ...

basically, pips are useless and the quicker you forget what a pip is the better. Think %, always % If you consider a 1% move, in EURUSD that will be 138 pips, and GBPUSD it will be 168 pips, but the pips aren't the same so what is the point of using ...

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I don't know whether he used hist/realized vol or implied vol, but the standard way to risk-adjust your trades is to consider a forward looking implied volatility, typical swing trades might use 1 month IV (chart) We can see that its at 5.8, much ...

most platforms offer FX options, and I structure via that. Personally, I use saxo to trade volatility. spreads are quite wide, and far worse than when I use to trade them on BARX

its not the only factor in my analysis. consider peripheral debt spreads YTD, inflation trends since then. ECB rhetoric.. etc etc etc many things have changed since then.

if you read it, then you would have seen that I have said no naked positions, and have been long EURUSD volatility. not sure how that isn't a position, but ok. also, whats with the insults, clearly just jealous it would seem

fwiw, Dankse bank copanhagen office quoting EURUSD at 1.3809/11 so far, no gap this week. but there is no reason for one so...