Yesterday CME hiked margin rates for EURCHF futures contracts. Later the SNB lowers their fund rate to almost 0% & supply swissies in the market to kill off the CHF rhino charge. Indeed it is a 'free' market this one...
BoJ finally decides to launch the yen short bazooka. Game on...
Conclusions - Very desperate times call for very desperate measures aka untested/unconventional methods. Very desperate central planners across the global. Prof. Ndungu I hope u taking notes to see how to kill off KES shortsellers and burn off their fx accounts to a margin call to remind them who's the boss...
I'm avoiding both yen & swissie trades for a while until the emotions cool off. Due to the one-sided yen & swissie trades, shorts are bound to get squeezed going forward even without intervention.
NZDUSD below 0.8600, weekly short setup lining up.
AUDUSD - this one is an outright short.
If any of these 2 rally on NFP news tomorrow, I'll be looking for weekly shorts.
Gold is overdone, but likely to test $1700 before it gets clobbered back to $1600 - $1580 level.
Anyone shorting Italian banks, it's been 5 weeks of handsome profits. Coming up next Spanish banks...
$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!