No worries. There is a method involving the order structure around these large options and trading with sentiment, towards the option. Hard to do on E/U in the first posts bc both Euro and Usd had negative sentiment with their respective political ...

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Those offers still capping EU

EURUSD

Negative USD sentiment from delaying debt cieling debates.

USD/JPY Discussion

stops ran. still some hard downward pressure on UJ

USD/JPY Discussion

Sell stops below 97.90

USD/JPY Discussion

debt ceiling was delayed, not raised.. :/

EURUSD

Rumors that Fitch may downgrade as well

EURUSD

Those buy stops above xx10 were ran fast! Reported offers at 1.3630 should cap it for a bit..

EURUSD

Orderflow info: More stops building above 1.3610, offers 1.3630

EURUSD

Some order flow info abt Usd/Jpy from twitter.com/OrderFlowForex.. Bids reported at 98.10/15

USD/JPY Discussion

Stubbled across this link to help out the traders that are new to understanding FX options.. looks cool so far! url

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Just saw this bit of info for the upcoming session(s) url "Large GBP/USD 1.6000 strike expires today, also large EUR/GBP 0.8460 strike" Actually both of these strike levels were met at exactly the 1000/1400, NY/GMT cut today. Interesting to see ...

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

What were 'large' options when you were close to the market? Over half a yard you said?

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Those places sell the information they obtain on the market. Fastest most reputable usually costs the most. Then there are incentive$$ to releasing this info as well. If a large entity sold a No Touch option worth 200 mio to someone, they'd report ...

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Sell stops under 1.0363 hit

USD/CAD

Up from bids

USD/CAD

Bids ahead of sell stops at 1.0363

USD/CAD

Is there a time that barrier options expire? I was thinking that they're all OTC and expirys vary randomly.

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Dealers report barrier-related offers protecting .9550 w/ stops building above.

AUD/USD

Saw that dealers are reporting an exotic option w/ related barrier orders on Aud/Usd @ .9550. This level hasn't been hit since mid-June and there's been a general negative sentiment since (RBA rate cuts & talks). There will be a side that wants to ...

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration