The calm in currency options despite the political headwinds in Europe, from Brexit to Merkel’s shaky coalition and Italy’s left-right government could be stirred into heighted volatility by the weakening of emerging market currencies from China to Brazil and Russia. CME Group Senior Economist, Erik Norland explores how FX options could react in emerging market currencies.
"Trading in China for foreigners - What is the deal?" moderated by
The Psychology of Trading workshop took a deep dive into improving one’s mental focus through mindfulness and meditation.
With scientific evidence backing his claims, Russ Rausch from Vision Pursue discussed two main points:
1. Your brain, like a muscle, can be trained to improve focus.
Wine futures are not quite like the futures contracts you know. The main reason why they exist is allowing customers to buy in advance at a lower price, the payment is upfront, high end wines before they are bottled. From the point of view of the producers is a way to eliminate exposure to price fluctuations, at least partially, and generate revenues in advance of the release date.
Welcome again to Phillip Capital’s Trading Asia Symposium. There’s a reason why you are standing around and not sitting on your chairs. As promised to you before, each year we want the symposium to be better than the last, and this year we want to make you part of this experience. There’s no such thing as free lunch!
CME will launch two new SONIA futures: a Quarterly IMM SONIA contract observing the recommended specifications of the Working Group on Sterling Risk Free Reference Rate; and an innovative MPC SONIA contract based on the meeting dates of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to provide greater precision in hedging between the dates of Central Bank policy meetings.
Equity Derivatives Monthly - August 2018
