The frantic short-covering rally in EUR/AUD today was truly epic in proportion. The euro is up 4% on the day against the former high-flyer.

The resounding bottom put in in recent sessions after one of the strongest trends (basically in place for two years) has been eye opening.

5-19 euraud

Global growth fears have killed the Aussie today as hedge funds exit reflation trades.

AUD/USD is trying to steadyafter falling as low as 0.8360 earlier this afternoon. 0.8520/30 is resistance on rebounds near-term. Markets remain wildly whippy…

We trade now at 0.8465.