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Hawkish Fed, $94 Brent, $4K gold: how are you structuring trades right now?

With hot CPI, December hike odds near 86% and the 10-year pressing toward 5%, outright directional bets feel expensive. I've been mapping out defined-risk structures instead, and here's what I'm watching:

Rates: a 10-year bear put spread, plus a DV01-neutral 2s10s flattener

Dollar: a zero-cost risk reversal around the 102.50 / 103.50 levels

Energy: a Brent 95/105 bull call spread, and a natural gas Jan/Apr calendar for data-center demand

Metals: a gold iron condor after the $4,000 break and pullback

Crypto: a Bitcoin straddle for a move either way, and an ETH bear put spread with ETF outflows

I wrote up all eight with payoff diagrams, breakevens and max loss for each, and pseudocode instead of equations.

Question for the group: in a hike-priced market, are you leaning on spreads and curve trades, or still taking directional exposure? What's your go-to hedge right now?

https://www.theorderbookedge.com/p/hawkish-fed-94-brent-4000-gold-eight

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