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The Dollar Weakness Story Continues
News updates highlight modest losses for USD/JPY, a decline in NZD/USD due to risk sentiment, and an increase in EUR/USD as US-China trade tensions ease. Meanwhile, gold lingers around $4,000 per troy ounce, struggling due to positive US-China trade deal prospects.
The declining trust in the US Dollar is leading more people to invest in alternatives like gold and Bitcoin, with the Great Debasement Trade reflecting this trend. American Bitcoin has added $160 million, boosting Trump memecoin by over 20%.
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With the Federal Reserve decision looming this week, we see the market has already priced in a rate cut following the softer US CPI report. Recent data showed core inflation dipping to 2.8% year-over-year, which is feeding this expectation for easier policy. Derivative traders should therefore watch for opportunities in volatility, as the largest price moves will likely come from any deviation from this dovish consensus.
The Pound Sterling is showing strength from solid domestic data, but the GBP/USD pair seems capped around the 1.3300 level. We believe the path of least resistance is lower if global risk sentiment sours, similar to the pattern we observed in 2023 when strong UK data was not enough to prevent a slide. Buying put options on GBP/USD could be a prudent way to position for a potential pullback while limiting upside risk.
Gold is in a precarious position, struggling at the $4,000 mark as optimism over a US-China trade deal dampens its safe-haven appeal. Recent statistics show net outflows of over $2 billion from major gold ETFs in the past week, confirming this short-term bearishness. Selling out-of-the-money call options could be a strategy to generate income, based on the view that gold’s upside is limited in the immediate future.
Currency Market Dynamics
The US Dollar’s broad weakness is the dominant theme, even overshadowing risk-on sentiment that would typically weaken the Japanese Yen. We see this in USD/JPY’s inability to rally, which tells us that bets against the dollar are currently driving currency markets. This environment supports looking at put options on the US Dollar Index (DXY) as a direct play on continued Fed-driven depreciation.
