Whip it: Don’t think, just trade

At the start of every week, I wonder what news will materialise for me to write about. Amazingly, something nearly always comes up, even at times like this when many market participants have gone on holiday.

Things look to have settled into a range. That will please some players, including, I’m told by Drew Niv from FXCM (see story), many retail punters; but not others, such as the trend followers. In an attempt to stem my growing reputation of being a reverse indicator, I decided to look at options and see if there are any clues for where the dollar might be going.

A chart of one- and three-month implied EUR/USD vol seems to reiterate that the market is range bound.

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