EWQ Relative Value — France vs Germany Fiscal Spread Strategy
Created
Thesis
The global bond sell-off is hitting everyone, but France carries an extra problem of its own: a ballooning deficit and a budget fight that could bring down the government, which makes its bonds riskier than Germany's. In a rising-rate world, investors punish the country with the weakest fiscal story first. Pairing a short French bond position against a long German one isolates France's specific risk — you profit if the gap between French and German borrowing costs keeps widening, even if rates broadly stabilize.
Strategy approach
The global bond sell-off is hitting everyone, but France carries an extra problem of its own: a ballooning deficit and a budget fight that could bring down the government, which makes its bonds riskier than Germany's. In a rising-rate world, investors punish the country with the weakest fiscal story first. Pairing a short French bond position against a long German one isolates France's specific risk — you profit if the gap between French and German borrowing costs keeps widening, even if rates broadly stabilize. Decision analysis profile: value. Required dimensions: valuation_method, valuation_sensitivity, business_economics, cash_quality, balance_sheet_leverage, dilution_capital_allocation, moat, catalysts, counterevidence, invalidation.
Markets and timeframes
Entry and exit at a glance
These are the named rules in the shared configuration. Review the full conditions below before using a strategy.
- Entry: France Relative Underperformance New-Low Short (EWQ@1d) (4 conditions)
- Entry: Germany Relative Strength New-High Long (EWG@1d) (3 conditions)
- Exit: Time Stop at 90 Bars (both) (1 condition)
- Exit: Invalidation: France Reclaims 20-Day Mean (EWQ@1d) (1 condition)
- Exit: Invalidation: Germany Loses 20-Day Mean (EWG@1d) (1 condition)
- Exit: Scale-Out: France Successive New Low (EWQ@1d) (1 condition)
- Exit: Scale-Out: Germany Successive New High (EWG@1d) (1 condition)
- Exit: Stop Loss at 2.0% (1 condition)
- Exit: Take Profit at 4.0% (1 condition)
Shared strategy rules
Rule configuration
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"right": {
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}Indicator configuration
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}Parsed strategy
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"target_symbol": "STOCK:EWG"
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"target_symbol": "STOCK:EWQ"
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"purpose": "take_profit",
"target_symbol": "STOCK:EWG"
},
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"right": {
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"priority": 100,
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"risk_percent": 2,
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"version": 2
}Strategy instructions
Trading agent generated from recommendation idea 'The global bond sell-off is hitting everyone, but France carries an extra problem of its own: a ballooning deficit and a budget fight that could bring down the government, which makes its bonds riskier than Germany's. In a rising-rate world, investors pun'. Thesis: The global bond sell-off is hitting everyone, but France carries an extra problem of its own: a ballooning deficit and a budget fight that could bring down the government, which makes its bonds riskier than Germany's. In a rising-rate world, investors punish the country with the weakest fiscal story first. Pairing a short French bond position against a long German one isolates France's specific risk — you profit if the gap between French and German borrowing costs keeps widening, even if rates broadly stabilize.
Performance
No trade count, win rate, or realized P&L figures are provided in this public preview. The thesis and shared rules do not establish a performance record.
What this public preview can establish
- The thesis and strategy approach describe a market view. They do not show whether an entry or exit condition is currently met.
- Technical strategy fields are shared above. Inspect the actual conditions and check when they were evaluated before relying on them.
- No trade count, win rate, or P&L figure is published in this preview. It cannot establish a performance record.
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