By Tanvir Sandhu
(Bloomberg) --President Donald Trump’s aides aren’t the only ones offering conflicting interpretations. The markets are as well.
While options investors in the U.S. are expressing risk-on sentiment, traders in Treasuries are beginning to sense a risk-off move may be round the corner.
The difference between normalized one-month 25-delta puts and calls on the S&P 500 Index is now near levels seen in July, when stocks surged. Effectively, current positioning suggests that investors are pricing a low probability of a sell-off.
Over in Treasuries, the spread between puts and calls on an exchange-traded fund tracking notes with maturities of 20 years and longer has turned negative, suggesting investors are betting that the recent push toward higher yields at the back end of the curve is waning -- at least for now.
--With assistance from Cecile Vannucci. To contact the reporter on this story: Tanvir Sandhu in London at [email protected] To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ven Ram at [email protected]
