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Currency markets are hanging on every European headline, so this strategist has a trade in another direction.
How best to describe the currency markets now? How about "headline driven, vicious, range-bound?"
That's the opinion of Todd Gordon , co-head of research and trading at Aspen Trading Group. So instead of trying to maneuver in the euro zone, he's looking east.
In particular, Gordon told CNBC's Scott Wapner, he's looking at the conflicting pressures on Asian economies. "On one side of the trade, we've got the inflationary, positive U.S. data trade driving these economies higher," he says. "In the east, we have China lower, we've got copper lower , which is forming a big technical divergence." And that means opportunity.
Gordon wants to go short the Australian dollar, since Australia is a major commodity exporter, and while not a big copper player, it tends to move with the copper market. "As China restocks and China is not buying a lot of copper stockpiles ," Gordon says, it makes sense to sell the Aussie given the headline risk of this "European weekend."
Meanwhile, the yen is re-emerging as a safe haven, Gordon says. So he recommends selling the Aussie against the yen at 79.00 with a stop at 80.50 and a target of 76.00.
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