Henri Lucas USD/JPY FX Carry Strategy Unveiled for the First Time

At present, against the backdrop of increasing volatility in the global foreign exchange market, the famous financial strategist Henri Lucas has for the first time made public his original “USD/JPY dynamic arbitrage model” to institutional investors. This trading strategy, which combines macroeconomic analysis with quantitative technology, has successfully solved the persistent arbitrage problem of policy interest rate differentials in G7 currency pairs.Henri Lucas USD/JPY FX Carry Strategy Unveiled for the First Time

Strategy Core Mechanics​​

The model is built on three mutually verified transaction logics:

Interest rate anchoring effect: real-time tracking of the difference in policy interest rates between the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, locking in positive interest rate differentials through forward contracts

Volatility Control Module: Automatically initiates risk hedging liquidation procedure when VIX index exceeds 25

Black Swan Early Warning System: Monitoring Abnormal Changes in the Shape of Japan’s Government Bond Yield Curve

“The most fatal weakness of traditional carry trades is that they ignore the risk of policy shifts,” Lucas explained at the JPMorgan Global Foreign Exchange Forum. “Our model is the first to incorporate text analysis of central bank officials’ speeches into trading signals, predicting monetary policy turning points 3-6 months in advance.”

Historical backtest performance

According to data disclosed by its team, the strategy has shown significant advantages in the complete market cycle:

The annualized rate of return is 2.3 times that of the benchmark carry trade strategy

The maximum retracement is controlled within 7.8%

The Sharpe ratio remains stable at above 2.5

It is particularly noteworthy that the model performed particularly well in sudden risk events, and successfully avoided the intraday fluctuation of 400 points caused by the Bank of Japan’s “yield curve control” policy adjustment.

Institutional Application Prospects

Currently, three sovereign wealth funds have incorporated this strategy into their foreign exchange reserve management framework. The head of trading at a large asset management company in Tokyo commented: “Lucas’s breakthrough lies in applying machine learning to the time dimension selection of arbitrage transactions, which completely changes the passive holding model of traditional arbitrage.”

The strategy white paper shows that its latest iteration has added the “Japanese companies’ overseas M&A capital flow forecast” factor, which can more accurately capture the window of periodic depreciation of the yen.