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Trade Idea: Gold Option Implied Volatility vs US 10-Year Implied Volatility

George Austin
December 13, 2019 09:09 AM
Futures Options Trade Idea

Futures Options Trade Idea

 

Gold Option Implied Volatility vs US 10-Year IV – Trade Analysis

 

Trade Idea: 

 

Feb Gold Straddle vs Feb US 10-Year(TY) Straddle (Buy GCF^ Sell TYF^)

 

This is the same idea we had back in October which worked well that time, selling US 10-Year Vol (TY) vs Gold Vol, which as you can see here is diverging again.

A 3-Year scatter of Gold & US 10-Year Implied Vol is also showing how Gold Implied Vol is currently out of sync with US 10-Year (TY) IV.

Backtesting the structure using a CIX weighting shows it’s trading approx $10 below it’s historic (5-year) payout on this switch.

Notice how the top sheet here is the inverse of the Vol ratio top.

 

Just remember, this is a trade idea only and not investment advice. Do your own research and consider your risk tolerance. Know your risk.

Disclosure: We may have trading positions in the same or highly correlated trading structures. 

 

 

 
About the Author

George Austin is a co-founder of Pricing Monkey. Pricing Monkey provides financial derivative pricing and analytics software that helps improve understanding of complex derivative positions.