Hedging your risk with currency options

We were the first currency broker to offer currency options to private clients. Until recently these products were generally only offered by banks to large corporations. We’ve changed all that, and now you can benefit from this way of exchanging currency too.

With a currency option, you protect yourself if currency values move against you. At the same time you can benefit if exchange rates move in your favour. Currency options are all forms of hedging currency risk.

Watch our 60 second video here to find out more about currency options.

With some currency options, you need to pay a premium (upfront fee). With others, you don’t. 

We offer many types of currency options, and we can tailor them to exactly match your needs and budget.

These are three of our most popular currency options:

Options with a premium: 

Protection option

Risk reversal

Options without a premium: 

50% participating forward

If you’d like to discuss which would be right for you, please call us on 0800 783 6022, or +44 20 7801 9080. We’d be delighted to help. You can also ask us to call you back.

Our hedging strategies are offered through World First Markets Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority ( "FSA") to provide advice on and execute trades in options and derivatives. Our Firm Reference number is 477561.