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Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research Equity Volatility Trade Summary (June 5, 2017)

The passage is a routine internal trading summary showing open options positions and rationales. It contains no allegations, financial flows to individuals, or links to powerful officials. As a standa Lists specific option trades on emerging market ETFs, Chinese tech stocks, and US tech giants. Provides trade rationales such as hedging China tech bubble and leveraging low volatility. Cites BofA Me

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November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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The passage is a routine internal trading summary showing open options positions and rationales. It contains no allegations, financial flows to individuals, or links to powerful officials. As a standa Lists specific option trades on emerging market ETFs, Chinese tech stocks, and US tech giants. Provides trade rationales such as hedging China tech bubble and leveraging low volatility. Cites BofA Me

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Table 6: Summary of open trades as of 5-Jun-17 Trade Description Open Open Date Level Long 1x EEM 3m 97.5% put vs. short ~0.09x units each of 3m 97.5% puts on 15% 0.0% FXI, EWY, EW2Z, EPI, EWT, RSX, EZA, and EWW 7“ “e Buy Tencent Jul1? 250/300 strangle 22-May-17 2.45% Buy A-shares (2823 HK) Jul17 105% call 22-May-17 1.15% Buy 1x contract of ESTX50 Jun17 3525, sell 4x contracts of V2X Aug future 22-May-17 1.00% Buy SX5E Dec17 3450-3700 bullish risk reversal vs short IBOXX HY TRS . : _ 30-May-17 1.17% with equal notional sizing 6.9% (FB), 1.2% (AMZN), Buy 6m ATM calls on FB, AMZN, NFLX and GOOGL 30-May-17 9.40% 1/0 (NFLX), 6.2% (GOOGL) Buy a 6m outperformance call on FANG stocks vs. SPX conditional on SPX> current levels at expiry Buy HSI Sep17 90% put, sell ASX200 Sep-17 90% put 30-May-17 0.15% 30-May-17 3.4% Expected Trade Term 3m Jul-17 expiry Jul-17 expiry Jun-17 expiry Dec-17 expiry 6m Sep-17 expiry Rationale Buy EEM puts financed by a basket of EM puts to lever near record low correl Hedge the China tech bubble; Tencent unlikely to stand still after a 45% rally YTD Hedge the upside into MSCI announcement on 20-Jun Fundamental case to be long EU equities remains intact but stretched bullish positioning could lead to near-term consolidation BofAML Equity & Credit strategists highlight they favour equities over HY credit as div yields have surpassed HY credit yield & equities offer more gearing to rising PMI's, earnings and FCF Stock replace FANG stocks Lever extremely depressed FANG volatility and low correlation to buy upside HSl is unlikely to outperform if AS51 drops more than 10%; HSI vol below AS51 vol Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Prices reflective of most recently available data which may be delayed in some cases. “Trade Value” represents current valuation of trades initiated on the “Open Date”. 24 Global Equity Volatility Insights | 06 June 2017 BankofAmerica Merrill Lynch

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