27% profit every 20 days?
This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.
Hayman Capital Management’s Kyle Bass has been bearish on the Chinese banking system and yuan for several months now. A couple of days ago, the hedge fund manager appeared on CNBC, warning that the Chinese only have “a few months ahead of them before they get into a real danger territory.”
Bass added that his fund is allocating a substantial proportion of its resources to betting against the yuan – or on its depreciation.
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Investors will ultimately come to conceive a 10 percent devaluation in the yuan as “a pipe dream,” he commented. “When you look at the size of the imbalance and the size of their economy, it's going to go 30 or 40 percent in the end, and it's going to be the reset for the world.”
“This isn't an aberration. This isn't a speed bump. This is China's excess — let's call it misallocation of capital — coming home to roost," he went on to explain. “You can't grow your banking system 1,000 percent in 10 years and not have a loss cycle. And your currency won't stay strong when you go to rectify that balance.”
How To Play The Chinese Bearishness
For those looking for a way to play the bearish thesis on China without actually betting against the yuan or shorting baking stocks, binary options might offer an interesting alternative.
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What Are Binary Options?
Investing via binary options is just that: Playing a binary event. “Binary options are limited risk contracts based on a simple yes/no market proposition like will the markets go up by the end of the trading week,” binary options trading site Nadex explained.
“Binary options offer traders ways to trade the most active stock indices, commodities, forex, event and bitcoin markets with relatively low collateral.”
Using Binaries To Bet Against China
There is a way to bet against China without actually shorting stocks or playing the yuan. By investing in binary options, investors can bet on something as simple as: “Will the index trade above 8,850 points by March?”
For those thinking the answer is yes, buying the binary options is the way to go. For those thinking the response is no, selling would be a better idea.
Disclosure: Javier Hasse holds no positions in any of the securities mentioned above.
Image Credit: Public Domain27% profit every 20 days?
This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.