This Week in Futures Options

Topics this week include: Energy/Crude Equities Metals/Gold Rates Ags Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over Question from Mate7 - Good talk on ex. and settle on last show. I'm looking over the CME website option specs pages and I don't see many American style contracts. Why does CME use so many European contracts? Are they against early exercise?

Topics This Week Include: Crude Rates Equities Metals Ags Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Cambel: Oh no! Did the millennials kill cheese ? Are they coming for fluid milk next? Question from Inlo: Is it only possible to exercise a FOP that has the same month as the underlying future? If I'm long an April CL future do I also need an April put option? Or...

Topics this week include: FX Metals/Gold Crude/WTI Equities Crypto < Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments. Question from Leo Orland: What is the base mining/production cost for gold? Are we approaching that level? Question from Tatlas: Love Vol Views and TWIFO. I miss the Two-fer Fridays with both shows. Keep up the crude info. Have a somewhat basic question. Can I trade optio...

Topics this week include: Rates Crude/WTI Metals/Gold Equities/RVX Ags Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take the reins Question from Nittles - Maybe Nick can talk about what the Euro pit was like back in go-go 90s when rates were rocking under Greenspan? Comment from John C David -Trade Wars & Loss of Farmers' Soy & Other Agriculture Exports?! American Economy Slowing: Trade Imbalance/Tax Cuts...

Topics this week include: Crude Metals/Gold Equities/RVX Crypto/Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from George Pat - You say equity put skew isn't interesting. I find it pretty fascinating because it's a barometer for the market's demand for protection and income. I'm in for more equity skew. Question from Ron S6 - What's your suggested minimum account size...

Topics this week include: Equities/Russell Crude/WTI Gold/Silver/Copper Crypto/Bitcoin Ags/Corn Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Varga - Which strategy should futures options traders learn about and focus on first? Question from BelaRussian - I'm long futures options and they are ITM. If I want to exercise it now as oppose to selling them, I can do that any t...

Topics this week include: Equities Russell/EMini Crude Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say Options question of the week: We talked about crypto derivatives at the @BlockchainVoice Conference. So this week we want to know which Crypto product you'd like to see listed on a major venue next. 72% - Bitcoin Options 8% - Ripple Options/Futures 15% - Ether Options/Futures 5% - Litec...

This episode was originally posted on August 28th, 2017 Topics this week include: S&P and other indexes Silver and Gold Crude Oil Winners: Copper, Soybean oil Losers: Lean hogs, corn Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Sho Odwa - Hi! Which website publishes real-time commodity options quotes Comment from Allan - I would have thought KC Wheat would be the winner?...

Topics this week include: Crude Equities/S&P Metals/Silver Bitcoin/Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week We're talking about #Crypto #Derivatives at the upcoming @BlockchainVoice Conference (register at http://VoiceOfBlockChain.com). So this week we want to know which #Crypto product you'd like to see listed on a major venue next. 72% - Bitcoin Options 8% - Ripple Options/F...

Topics this week include: Crude/WTI Ags/Soybeans Equities Metals/Gold Bitcoin/Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take the reins Comments on the U.S./China soybean battlefield Ned Brown has comments on the switch from soybeans to sugar cane Keifer says don't expect business to come back to the U.S. once the tariff is lifted. Liz O. wants to know where to find all of Blu's research ( Right h...

Today we are joined by: Mike Tosaw from St. Charles wealth management Sean Smith, Managing Director of Derivatives Licensing at FTSE Russell Ron Bundy, CEO of Benchmarks, North America at FTSE Russell Topics this week include: Equities Indices/Russell Crude/WTI Metals/Silver Winners: Oats, Nat Gas, Iron Ore Losers: Rough Rice, WTI, Lumber Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in Question from...

Our featured guest in this episode is Blu Putnam, Chief Economist at CME Group. Topics this week include: Crude/Brent/WTI Equities/Russell Ags/Soybeans Question form Robinar - La nina or el nino? Which one is good for U.S. Ags? I always forget. Gold/Metals Bitcoin/Crypto

Topics this week include: Crude Ags/Soybeans Question from LLN9 - Are beans calls showing any hope for an upside move in next six months? Bitcoin/Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from HLC - I have a couple of FOPs that are going to expire deep in the money but covered by the underlying long future position. When should I expect the long position to disappea...

Topics This Week Include: Silver/Gold Crude Equities/Russell Futures Options Feedback Question from Daniel - Saw what looked like a gold fly in the TWIFO report but Nick from QuikStrike said he didn't see it in the block reports. Why is that? Are all trades not reported in the block trade reports? Question from Yancy - I heard it said that there are 20 active names and about 75 tradeable names in...

Topics this week include: Crude Equities/Russell Metals/Gold Ags/Soybeans Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in Comment from L Sert - Missed Nick on the show. What's his thought on the big $150 crude prediction? Question from P Kell - Looking at CME TWIFO page and trying to figure it out. What do the numbers in the 25D and 25D QuikSkew columns mean? Apologize if you've answered this before...

Topics this week include: Metals Crude Equities/Russell Ags/Soybeans Crypto/Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: Listners chime in Comment from Trade_The_Swing -Today is sunny as trade tariffs begin, yesterday was cloudy as trade tariffs were about to start, tomorrow will be hot weather cause tariff war de-escalate, all this tariffs noise is beyond silly. Comment from Son of Algos - #BuckleUp #TradeW...

Topics this week include: Crude Equities/Russell Ags Gold Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over FlashPoll: Crude oil has been on a tear this week. We know that many of you are trading options on this hot commodity. Quite simply - which options product are you using to slake your thirst for Crude oil? WTI? USO? XLE? WTI USO XLE Other Listener questions and comments: Comment from Oli...

Topics this week include: It's Russell Reconstitution time: Russell 1000 & 2000 rebalancing today. Could result in the most heavily traded session of 2018. Equity volatility. Will we see a vertical asymptote? CME's new OPEC watch tool Crude: OPEC ministers agree to raise oil production but don't say by how much Ag chat: beans hit nine-year low on rejeuvenated trade war talk CME Bitcoin futures off...

Your co-hosts this week are Sean Smith, Managing Director of Derivatives Licensing at FTSE Russell and Nick Howard, Managing Principal at Bantix Technologies. Topics this week include: Russell reconstitution time Beans! Purdue, CME Group Ag Barometer hits 16-month high Crude Futures Options Feedback: What's on your mind? Question from Mark Brandt: Does Nick use the weather to trade ags? Does he ha...

Today's CME hot seat guests are Eric Baum, Senior Commodity Trader, and John Rothstein, Chief Operating Officer at Optiver US. Topics this week include: Ags Corn Soybeans Equities/RVX Crude/WTI Futures Options Feedback: Flash poll! Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checki...

Topics this week include: WTI/Crude Gold Equities Ags/Soybeand Rates Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Flash Poll! Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checking with your broker)! What does your gut tell you? VIX? Bitcoin? TSLA? RUSSELL2000? RUT? IWM? Tesla, TSLA VIX Bitcoin...

Topics this week include: Gold Equities Crude Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week. CME Group just announced a new Ether index this week expanding the universe of Crypto indices. But, at the end of the day, we all want more tradeable products. Which derivatives product would you like to see next in the Crypto space? Bitcoin? Ether? Ripple? LightCoin? 76% - Bitcoin Options 9% - Et...

Today's co-host is Tim McCourt, the Global Head of Equity Products at CME Group. Topics this week include: Equities Trade at Cash Open (TACO) Crude Gold Bitcoin/Crypto Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Andrew Sullivan - When, oh when, are we going to get bitcoin options? I don't want to touch the futures so I'm left sitting on my hands during these crazy moves...

Today we feature co-host Sean Smith, Managing Director or Derivatives Licensing at FTSE Russell Topics this week include: Equities Crude/WTI Gold Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say Comment from Patrick Snoke - Only place #hoglove is seriously discussed is @Options #twifo and some underground blogs for lonely farmers. Each for different reasons. Question from Harry H. - Can I buy op...

Originally Posted February 20th, 2017 Topics this week include: WTI Skew Crude vol Eurodollars Lean Hogs Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Tom Rios - How has Mexico threatening to buy corn from Brazil and Argentina, rather than the US, impacted corn volatility? Question from McTinney - Hello to the TWIFO team and guest! Can you give a little more color on the...