CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)

Update 3/26/2018: FXE pushed above the prior high, on March 8, breaking the chance of a downtrend, for now at least. I exited for a loss, with a debit of $1.20 and shares at $119.80.

Shares rose by 1.1% over 26 days, or a +15% annual rate. The options position produced a -37.5% loss for a -526% annual rate.

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I have entered a short vertical spread on FXE, which tracks the EUR/USD exchange rate, using options that trade for the last time 42 days hence, on April 20. The premium is a $0.75 credit and the stock at the time of entry was priced at $118.55.

I made the decision to enter the trade in my account based on a downtrend signal from the Fisher Transform metric and an Elliott wave count that suggests a 5th wave down at the Minuette degree within a decline of larger degree.

Implied volatility stands at 7%, which is 2/5ths of the VIX, a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500 index. Currency-based trades typically will have lower IV than those based on equities.

FXE’s IV stands higher than 18% of its daily readings over the past year and stands in the 34th percentile of its most recent broad movement..

The price used for analysis was $118.54.

Premium:	$0.75	Expire OTM
FXE-bear call spread	Strike	Odds	Delta
Calls
Long	122.00	86.3%	14
Break-even	118.25	70.4%	31
Short	119.00	54.4%	47

The premium is 50% of the width of the position’s wings.

The risk/reward ratio is 3:1.

The bid/ask spread was 5.2%.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, March 6, 2018

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