December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 29m
English
A currency carry trade involves an implicit bet on the exchange rate for the borrowed currency in terms of the currency of investment remaining relatively stable. Even for the most attractive of currency carry trades, a large adverse move in the currency exchange rate can easily wipe out the interest rate spread. So the currency carry trade is, in essence, a bet on the exchange rate volatility being low, at least relative to what the market might expect. It can therefore be thought of as a “volatility-selling” trade—a bet on volatility declining or at least being low relative to market expectations.
A currency carry trade is also a levered trade. It involves investing in a financial ...
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