here would be implication for many other contracts as well (for example bonds and metals), if such were to occur early next week.
Without expressing any opinion on this, I'd point out that there is a Japanese stock ETF which hedges out the Yen/$ exposure. So if you believe that the BOJ will take steps that pushes up the Nikkei AND the Yen will decline against the Dollar too, then buying some DXJ is a good vehicle for expressing this view.
(There are lots of other ways to express this dual view, but this is the simplest way for ETF traders.)
YCS [pro shares ultra short yen] would be a more aggressive way to play the imagined scenario….
This doesn't have much to do with hedging the exposure or this particular ETF, but I have not seen a discussion of the following anywhere so I'll pose this as a question. If you look at the composition of Nikkei-225 you see that a large percentage of it is in these groups:
Foods, Textiles and Apparel, Pulp & Paper, Chemicals, Oil & Coal Products, Rubber Products, Glass & Ceramics, Steel Products, Nonferrous metals, Machinery, Electric Machinery, Shipbuilding, Automotive, Precision Instruments, and Other Manufacturing.
It seems like my favorite Central Banker has successfully unleashed a worldwide raw materials inflation cycle, measured in whatever currency you chose. Given that Japan imports so much of its raw materials and so do many of the countries where it now chooses to do some of its manufacturing, how can what's about to happen, even if the final demand somehow rises, be good for Japan?
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