HALISTER1: TY Low-Delta Calls Richen Into Hurricane, N. Korea Weekend Risks

TY Low-Delta Calls Richen Into Hurricane, N. Korea Weekend Risks

(Bloomberg) -- Call options on Treasury futures extend richening and remain above puts into weekend risks related to Hurricane Irma and North Korea Founding Day.
  • TY October calls (expiring two days after September Fed meeting) have remained bid amid UST short squeeze with U.S. rate hikes being effectively priced out this year; see chart here
  • Straddle on 10-year swap rates with Monday expiry has breakeven of about 4.5bp vs 2.5bp on non-event risk days
  • Pessimism is increasingly becoming stretched with the flatness of the Eurodollar curve pricing in the end of the business cycle; see chart here of ED2-ED8
  • NOTE: See analysis here from June 14 indicating lower summer yields: Fed, skew and inflation cross- currents see lower summer yields
  • NOTE: Tanvir Sandhu is an interest-rate and derivatives strategist who writes for Bloomberg. The observations he makes are his own and are not intended as investment advice
To contact the reporter on this story: Tanvir Sandhu in London at tsandhu17@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ven Ram at vram1@bloomberg.net Anil Varma

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