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We Said London Would Open on Friday's Expiry Map. The Monday Ladder Landed Two Minutes Before the Bell.
Yesterday this desk said no expiry ladder existed at 06:20 UTC and concluded London would open on Friday's map. InvestingLive published the Monday ladder at 06:58:44 — two minutes before the bell. The observation was right and the inference was wrong. Four publication times now measured: 22:19 the night before, 05:01, 06:58:44, and nothing at all at 06:30 today. That is an eight-hour spread and no cadence at all. Plus: when the page does arrive, the notionals are inside an image. Size on the strike, not the notional.
EUR/USD Did Thirteen Pips in Tokyo and Is Sitting on Two Expiries — London Is Where That Breaks
EUR/USD traded a thirteen-pip range in Tokyo — 1.1619 to 1.1632 — directly above New York cut expiries at 1.1615 and 1.1600, with the 100- and 200-hour moving averages at 1.1611–1.1620. There is no European data today at all and the ECB is thirty hours away. Why four levels inside twenty-three pips is one level, and what a range system does wrong here.
WTI Near $90 Is a Correlation Problem Before It Is an Oil Trade
WTI is holding near $90 on US–Iran escalation and disruption around the Strait of Hormuz. For an automated FX system the risk is not the oil price — it is that oil is now the shared input behind several positions you think are independent.