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Late SOFR/Treasury Option Roundup

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Derivatives trade remained mixed Monday as underlying SOFR and Treasury futures climbed back near Early Friday highs after Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index came out lower than expected: -23.4; EST. -12.0. SOFR structures leaned toward upside calls in the second half with paper adding to some 50,000 Dec'23 SOFR call condors bought last week. Treasury options saw a handful of mixed 5- and 10Y structures in the first half while a large July 10Y strangle was sold vs. June strangles. Salient trade:
  • SOFR Options:
    • Update, over 17,500 (Block/screen/Pit) SFRZ3 96.00/96.50/97.00/97.50 call condors, 5.5 adds to +50k bought last week
    • +10,000 SFRZ3 95.50/96.00/96.50 call flys, 4.5
    • Update, 8,000 SFRU3 94.62/94.75/95.37/95.50 iron condors ref 95.14
    • 1,800 SFRN3 94.87/95.00/95.12 put flys ref 95.145
    • 1,000 SFRM3 94.43/94.68/95.25/95.50 call condors
    • over +11,600 SFRM3 94.75 puts, 6.5 ref 94.91 to -.905
    • Block, 5,000 SFRZ3 96.00/96.50/97.00/97.50 call condors, 5.5 ref 95.51
  • Treasury Options:
    • Block, -20,000 TYN3 112.5/119 strangles, 5 over TYM3 113/117 strangles
    • 5,000 FVM3 108.5/109 put spds, 14 ref 109-17
    • 3,000 TYM3 116/117 call spds, 19 ref 114-28.5
    • 4,300 FVM3 111.25/112.25 call spds ref 109-14
    • 4,000 TYM3 117.5/119.5 call spds ref 114-24.5
    • 4,000 Wed/wkly 114.75 straddles 3 over TYM3 111/117.5 strangles
    • 40,000 wk4 10Y 113.25/114.25 put spds, 10 ref 114-23.5
    • 10,500 wk4 10Y 113.5 puts, 4 ref 114-22
    • 9,000 TYM3 113.5 puts vs. 115/116.5 call spd 0.0 net ref 114-22
    • over 18,200 FVM3 111 calls, 17 ref 109-11.25
    • 8,600 FVM3 108 puts, 15.5-16 ref 109-08.75 to -09.5
    • 2,000 TYM3 117 calls, 17 ref 114-16.5

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