{"id":43551,"date":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/uncategorized\/43551\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","slug":"trump-postponed-planned-strikes-on-iranian-energy-facilities-by-ten-days-citing-improving-us-iran-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/live-updates\/43551\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postponed planned strikes on Iranian energy facilities by ten days, citing improving US\u2013Iran negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that planned US strikes on Iran\u2019s energy plants would be delayed by 10 days, to April 6 at 08:00 PM Eastern Time. The earlier deadline had been Friday, and a correction issued on March 26 at 20:44 GMT stated the date was April 6, not April 10.\n\nAfter the announcement, gold (XAU\/USD) rose from about $4,345 to $4,412 before easing to around $4,404. At the time of writing, gold was still down by nearly 2.20%.\n\n<h3>Market Reaction And Timing<\/h3>\nThe US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the dollar against six currencies, reduced its gains. It moved from a daily high near 100.01 to about 99.86.\n\nWith the US delaying strikes on Iran until April 6th, we are now in a ten-day window of heightened uncertainty. This pause does not remove the risk but simply concentrates it on a specific date. Derivative traders should be focused on pricing in the binary outcome of either further de-escalation or a sudden military conflict.\n\nThe most direct impact will be on crude oil, as over a fifth of the world&#8217;s daily supply passes through the nearby Strait of Hormuz. We saw the oil volatility index, or OVX, spike above 45 during similar tensions last year in 2025, and it&#8217;s currently hovering around 38. Buying straddles or strangles on WTI or Brent crude futures with expirations just after April 6th is a direct way to trade the expected price swing, regardless of the direction.\n\nYesterday&#8217;s volatile moves in gold and the US Dollar Index show that safe-haven assets will be extremely sensitive to news over the next week. Implied volatility on gold options is already ticking up, with the GVZ index climbing 4% in the last 24 hours. We believe buying protective call options on gold and put options on the dollar are logical hedges against a breakdown in talks.\n\n<h3>Equity Volatility And Portfolio Hedges<\/h3>\nThis specific geopolitical risk adds a new layer of anxiety to the broader market. While the VIX is still relatively low at 15.2, we have seen it double in a matter of days during past international crises. Hedging broader equity portfolios with cheap, out-of-the-money SPY puts expiring in mid-April could be a prudent move to protect against a shock to the system if the situation deteriorates.\n\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/trade-now\/\">Create your live VT Markets account<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.vtmarkets.com\/login\">start trading<\/a>\u00a0now. <\/b>\n<p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Start trading now &#8211; Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/trade-now\/\">here<\/a> to create your real VT Markets account <\/strong> <\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump delayed planned US strikes on Iran\u2019s energy plants until April 6; gold jumped, dollar gains eased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"josephine","author_link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/author\/josephine\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}