Tag: Australia

Options Trading

Volatility Skewness: Volatility Skew In Options Explained

Here’s our guide to this phenomenon and its uses in options trading…   Implied Volatility Skewness Background Implied volatility (IV) describes the market’s expected volatility ‘implied’ by its price.   Five…

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Nov 11, 2023 comments off
Markets

Australia’s Westpac dumps PwC as auditor after 55 years

Original source: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/australias-westpac-dumps-pwc-as-auditor-after-55-years-3225931

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Nov 08, 2023 comments off
Markets

Chaos as Optus outage disconnects half of Australia

Original source: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/chaos-as-optus-outage-disconnects-half-of-australia-3225956

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Nov 08, 2023 comments off
Options Trading

Call Option Payoff

Below we’ll build up this payoff diagram – for both long and short call options – by considering the behaviour of a call option price at expiry with respect to…

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Nov 06, 2023 comments off
Options Trading

Options Vega Explained: Price Sensitivity To Volatility

The Options: Greek Vega Explained Investing in options is always challenging because you need to predict with the greatest degree of accuracy possible what is likely to happen to the…

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Nov 04, 2023 comments off
Options Trading

The Sell Put And Buy Call Strategy | A Synthetic Long Stock

In this case, what is being mimicked is a long position on a stock by selling a put and buying a call at the same strike price and expiry (usually at the…

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Nov 03, 2023 comments off
Options Trading

The Synthetic Covered Call Options Strategy Explained

The answer is the Synthetic Covered Call.   What Is A Synthetic Option Strategy? A synthetic covered call is an options position equivalent to the covered call strategy (sold call options over an…

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Oct 30, 2023 comments off
Forex Trading

Australian data – September Retail Sales +0.9% m/m (vs. +0.3% expected)

A huge beat on expectations for September retail sales from Australia. +0.9% m/m expected +0.3%, prior +0.2% all categories performing strongly Another data point that’ll surely add to the case…

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Oct 30, 2023 comments off
Markets

Australia’s Azure Minerals agrees to $1 bln takeover by lithium giant SQM

Original source: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/australias-azure-minerals-agrees-to-1-bln-takeover-by-lithium-giant-sqm-3209329

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Oct 26, 2023 comments off
Forex Trading

Australian Q3 2023 Headline CPI +1.2% q/q (vs. 1.1% expected)

Higher than expected inflation data from Australia. Right across all three measures: headline trimmed mean (a core inflation measure) weighted median (another core inflation measure) The topside surprise on the…

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Oct 25, 2023 comments off