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Drachma Options Trading
If things go from bad to worse with Greece they could revert to the Drachma and then we would see drachma options trading in the Forex markets! How did this come to be? When the 2008 Great Recession started the Europeans followed the same path that the USA did, in the early 1930s. They adopted austerity measures to deal with excessive national debts. Meanwhile the USA stimulated its economy under the leadership of Fed chairman Bernanke, the greatest living scholar of the Great Depression. The US approach worked and the European approach still threatens to sink Europe into recession again. Along the way nations like Greece and Spain have had to deal with unemployment in the 25% or worse range. In fact, in Greece unemployment among young workers is 70%. The Greeks agreed to severe austerity measures in return for a series of bailout loans coming to about €170 billion. Now the Greek government has changed and the new leadership demands loan restructuring and cessation of austerity measures so that they can get their economy going again.
Is There a Solution?
The new Greek prime minister has come to Brussels in hopes of negotiating some breathing room for his nation. Newsweek covers the Greek debt crisis story.
Talks between Greece and euro zone finance ministers over the country’s debt crisis broke down on Monday when Athens rejected a proposal to request a six-month extension of its international bailout package as “unacceptable”.
The unexpectedly rapid collapse raised doubts about Greece’s future in the single currency area after a new leftist-led government vowed to scrap the 240 billion euro ($272.4 billion) bailout, reverse austerity policies and end cooperation with EU/IMF inspectors.
How long Greece can keep itself afloat without foreign support is uncertain.
The Greeks believe that they cannot go on as things are. If the EU does not agree to new terms, Greece may choose what they consider to be the lesser of two evils and leave the EU. They would go back to their traditional currency, the Drachma, and Forex traders could trade the drachma or choose drachma options trading. How would that work out?
Results of a Grexit
The possibility of a Greek exit from the EU has been talked about for so long that the news sources have adopted a shorthand version, the Grexit. If Greece is forced out of the Euro what happens? The Business Insider offers its opinion.
Rampant inflation, political unrest, debt defaults and a possible “contagion” within Europe’s financial sector – that’s what Greece’s new government might trigger if it does not get its way in its negotiations with the rest of Europe’s finance ministers right now.
If Greece leaves the Eurozone it would likely suffer a banking collapse and many economists fear that bank runs and banking collapses could become contagious across the southern tier
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