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USD/CAD Options Pricing Calling for Big Movement on BoC

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  • USDCAD one-day implied volatility balloons to nearly 23% ahead of today’s BoC meeting
  • The projected one-standard deviation daily range is 12235 to 12531
  • The pair is trading at a major long-term trend-line, today could make or break that line

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In following table, you’ll find levels of implied volatility (IV) for major USD-pairs for the next one-day and one-week time-frames. Using these levels, we’ve derived the range low/high prices from the current spot price within one-standard deviation for specified time-frames. Statistically speaking, there is a 68% probability that price will remain within the lower and upper-bounds.

USD/CAD Options Pricing Calling for Big Movement on BoC

One-day implied volatility swells to nearly 23%, points to a potential 1-stdev range of 12235-12531

At 14:00 GMT time, the Bank of Canada will release its decision on interest rates, with expectations that it will keep its benchmark rate at 0.75%. The bigger risk, barring a surprise raise, is likely to come with the central bank’s policy statement. (For more a deeper look, check out this piece.)

The options market is pricing in a sizable move today, with one-day implied volatility at nearly 23%. This implies a daily range within one standard deviation of the current spot price of 12235-12531.

We enter today’s event-risk with USDCAD at a significant cross-road. The recent break below the July low put the pair at a trend-line rising up from September 2012. This sets us up for a ‘make or break’ moment here as either support will hold and we will see some type of recovery at the least unfold, or major support fails and ushers in continuation to the down-side.

While the projected low/high levels don’t align with any major technical levels to speak of, the ramped-up implied volatility at a major line of support does suggest a high likelihood that we have a clear resolution once the dust settles today.

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USD/CAD Options Pricing Calling for Big Movement on BoC

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EURUSD Weekly Technical Analysis: New Month, More Weakness

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  • EURUSD broke the ‘neckline’ of a bearish ‘head-and-shoulders’ pattern, April trend-line
  • Resistance in vicinity of 11825/80 likely to keep a lid on further strength
  • Targeting the low to mid-11600s with more selling

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Coming into last week we pointed out the likelihood of finally seeing a resolution of the range EURUSD had been stuck in for the past few weeks, and one of the outcomes we made note of as a possibility was for the triggering of a ’head-and-shoulders’ pattern. Indeed, we saw a break of the ’neckline’ along with a drop below the April trend-line. This led to decent selling before a minor bounce took shape during the latter part of last week.

Looking ahead to next week the euro is set up for further losses as the path of least resistance has turned lower. Looking to a capper on any further strength there is resistance in the 11825-11880 area (old support becomes new resistance). As long as the euro stays below this area a downward bias will remain firmly intact.

Looking lower towards support eyes will be on the August low at 11662 and the 2016 high of 11616, of which the latter just happens to align almost precisely with the measured move target of the ‘head-and-shoulders’ pattern (determined by subtracting the height of the pattern from the neckline).

Bottom line: Shorts look set to have the upperhand as a fresh month gets underway as long as the euro remains capped by resistance. On weakness, we’ll be watching how the euro responds to a drop into support levels.

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Euro Bias Mixed Heading into October, Q4’17

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Euro Bias Mixed Heading into October, Q4'17

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EURUSD: Retail trader data shows 37.3% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders short to long at 1.68 to 1. In fact, traders have remained net-short since Apr 18 when EURUSD traded near 1.07831; price has moved 9.6% higher since then. The number of traders net-long is 15.4% lower than yesterday and 16.4% higher from last week, while the number of traders net-short is 0.4% higher than yesterday and 10.5% lower from last week.

We typically take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment, and the fact traders are net-short suggests EURUSD prices may continue to rise. Positioning is more net-short than yesterday but less net-short from last week. The combination of current sentiment and recent changes gives us a further mixed EURUSD trading bias.

— Written by Christopher Vecchio, CFA, Senior Currency Strategist

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British Pound Reversal Potential Persists Heading into New Quarter

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British Pound Reversal Potential Persists Heading into New Quarter

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GBPUSD: Retail trader data shows 38.2% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders short to long at 1.62 to 1. In fact, traders have remained net-short since Sep 05 when GBPUSD traded near 1.29615; price has moved 3.4% higher since then. The number of traders net-long is 0.1% higher than yesterday and 13.4% higher from last week, while the number of traders net-short is 10.6% lower than yesterday and 18.3% lower from last week.

We typically take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment, and the fact traders are net-short suggests GBPUSD prices may continue to rise. Yet traders are less net-short than yesterday and compared with last week. Recent changes in sentiment warn that the current GBPUSD price trend may soon reverse lower despite the fact traders remain net-short.

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