Sorry Chris, where did you learn this? Very little of what you have said is correct.

Getting a realistic picture of the forex market

No they buy options for hedging purposes, options wont move the markets. Institutions very rarely take outright directional trades. The most important thing for them is not to loose money so the first thing they ask is where the risk is and how are ...

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Here you go... image

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You can access previous days data for free on the CME website. You will need to pay if you want a live options data feed however url

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Market makers are not really interested in driving prices anywhere besides to where liquidity is. They are interested in churn as this is how they make their money as they are taking the other side of the trade. The are happiest when market is ...

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Take note of these Option levels. Very important...see the sellers came out almost to the tick.

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EUR is at an option barrier now at 1.105 on the futures hence the pause but its not a very big level. Next significant level is at 1.110 which is around 1.1085 on the spot. Gamma scalpers will short at these levels as they have short hedging in ...

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Agreed GJ is overvalued. I have a model that calculates values for various currencies. The blue line on the chart is the main value line and as you can see due to the election announcement it has massively overshot its value. Expect it to trade back ...

The Really Useless Thread

Institutions trade the data ahead of the release. So they are trading now for tomorrows data.

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Exactly. If you are a buyer why would you stop it from going down? You would just keeping on waiting while supply comes into the market to buy at the cheapest price possible. This is why understanding laws of supply and demand through volume ...

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image lots of buying on the cumulative deltas. you generally want to go in the same direction as the deltas

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Long EUR at 1.0905. Value is at 1.950 on the short term

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Cheap out of the money puts where bought right at that level so they are fully hedged and can start buying into the market before the release at best prices. Institutions have their own economists / analysts and they will not be looking at FF news ...

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Option barriers are very powerful levels...

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Put options bought at 1.09( 1.0880-75 Spot). There will be a defensive of this level.

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I would expect Draghi to talk the EUR down as it has been appreciating.

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Lots of Puts added in on the futures at 1.2900 yesterday (12886 on spot). Hence the bounce at that level as the gammas scalpers came out Went long at 92

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

Large amount of out the money Call options added at 1.0950 on the futures (1.0925 Spot) yesterday so Gamma scalpers will be selling this level today.

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Market is in risk unwind = Short Yen

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Short EUR at 1.0921. Long term value at 1.0810 , short term at 1.0900

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