Quote from dont:
Long or short the strangle, if you are long you want high volatility, if short you want volatility to drop.
I expected high volatility.
As usual, doom and gloom protagonists have entered the Euro area again. German banks need over $130 bn in capital and more of the same bla, bla, bla...
PIMCO of course heavy talking its interests: high probability of Greek default or restructuring. Bla, bla, bla...blu, blu, blu, ....bli, bli, bli...
Can´t hear anymore the defeatists !
FDAX hedged 5850, 5950, 6050.
ES still hedged 1040,1045,1050,1055.
In the moment currencies are a very interesting playing field as our Japanese friends want to test how the strong YEN is counterproductive to any export companies. Well, no problem. Bought some 0.1200 CME calls. Let´s see whether the braniacs at the BOJ have the guts to let the YEN further appreciate. As I understand the old man´s club there, they don´t give sh1t about deflation tendencies.