This Week in Futures Options

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...

Today's special guest is Jared Caplan, Head of Commodities Trading, Akuna Capital. Topics this week include: Corn Soybeans Futures Options Feedback: In which the listeners take over. Question from T Mal - Jared, What is your opinion on the current speculative interest in corn/beans? It seems large right now. What is your opinion on the extremely large open interest? Corn open interest in particula...

Topics this week include: Crude Gold/Metals Indices Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say Question from GWCH - You buying that this cryptocurrency rally is based on the sharia law approval? Question from Kennedy -Soros is getting into Crypto. Time to sell? Comment from CTWills - The news of a 16th options exchange make me appreciate the predominantly centralized futures option...

Special Guest Co-Host - Tracy Shuchart, @CHIGIRL Topics this week include: Crude/WTI Gold/Metals Futures Options Feedback/Volatility Flash Poll Which product/segment do you think will experience the most Volatility over the coming trading week (through the close on Friday 2/20) SPY SPX VIX WTI Crude Gold Bitcoin BTC GLD USO S&P500: SPY, SPX. VIX Gold: GLD, Come Crude Oil: WTI, USO Bitcoin: BTC Lis...

Today's episode features special guest co-host Todd Colvin, Senior Vice President at Ambrosino Brothers. Topics this week include: Soybeans Corn Hogs Energy/Crude oil Rates Indices Metals/Gold

Topics this week include: WTI Gold Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: The final options question of the week for 2017. Our Final #QOTW for 2017 is an easy one. Quite simply: what is your enduring market memory/event/trend/etc. of 2017? Have a suggestion of your own? We encourage you to choose "Other" and send in your thoughts. We'll share the interesting ones on the network. Happy New Year! Death o...

Topics this week include: Crude/WTI Gold Indices Winners: Heating Oil, WTI Losers: Oats, KC Wheat Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say Question from Anders - Can we get some Ags on the TWIFO show this week? Question from Neil Brennan - Nick has ATM implieds for #crypto can he also interpolate skews?

Topics this week include: Oil/WTI Gold Bitcoin Winners: RBOB, Soybean Oil Losers: Oats, Wheat Futures Options Feedback: Options Flash Poll Which would you rather see first? Would you rather see Options finally listed on Bitcoin futures? Or would you prefer to have more Cryptocurrency futures (Litecoin, Ethereum, etc.) launched instead? Gimme Bitcoin Options More Crypto Futures Save Me from More Cr...

Topics this week include: EuroDollars Oil/WTI E-mini Metals/Gold Winners: E-mini Russell, Nasdaq E-mini Losers: Iron Ore, Soybean Meal Futures Option Feedback: Listeners have their say Question from NOZ3T: Is it possible to hedge some of these aggregate commodity ETFs with puts in their underlying itself - so hedge USO with WTI puts, Corn with corn puts - you get the idea? Question from Tom B.:Is...

Topics this week include: Emini Energy/Oil Gold Bitcoin Winners: KC Wheat, Soybean Meal Losers: Lumber, Lean Hogs Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say Comment from MJobain - Tell Erik he needs to do some research on bitcoin volatility. Comment from Luis J -Good show. Caught it on podcast. Checked out the VIX/Yield curve chart on CME website. I have to admit that looks like nonsense t...

Topics this week include: Metals/Gold Ags Oil Rates/VIX Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week People are spooked about this market. Hedges are flying left and right. So the question remains: How are you hedging your portfolio right now? Metals: Gold, Silver, etc. VIX Calls / Volatility Index Puts (SPY, etc.) Bitcoin / Crypto Listener questions and comments: Comment from Scott Some...

Topics this week include: eMini S&P WTI/Crude Gold Bitcoin Futures Options Feedback: What is on your mind? Question from Scott Somer‏: The question I have is, How is the call skew between the July 450 puts and the 550 calls in July Wheat? And how far does call skew get when the markets are in FULL WEATHER mode? Question from Chill Bill: Are there any inverse commodity volatility products?

Topics this week include: Indices Crude Bitcoin Winners: Soybean meal, EuroDollar Losers: WTI, Heating Oil Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Jill - What happened to S&P skew after this week's selloff? Comment from Volvic - Liked all the rates talk. More of that please. Question from El Nino3 - Are the skews between eMini, SPY and SPX all correlated? Question f...

Today's guest co-host is Agha Mirza, Global Head of Interest Rate Products for CME Group Inc. Topics this week include: Rates Indices Crude Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Jackson - How is the new Fed chair being reflected in the rates products? Question from Alejandro - Can you guys do an overview of Rho and its impact on options in a rising interest rate e...

Topics this week include: Soybeans Nat Gas Silver Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week Bitcoin Futures are currently trading around $11,500. If #Options existed, how would you trade them? Assuming one-month to expiration would you...? 27% - Buy 5% OTM Call 32% - Buy 5% OTM Put 16% - Sell 5% OTM Covered Call 25% - Just Short the Future Listener questions and comments: Question fro...

Today we feature Sean Smith, Managing Director of Derivatives Licensing & Exchange Data at FTSE Russell. Topics this week include: Looking back at the Russell 2000 in 2017 RUT up nearly 12% Interesting trends and developments Russell options breakdown from this week Bonus: RVX Crude Oil Ags Metals Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week Bitcoin futures are currently trading around $...

Topics this week include: Nat Gas Oil Gold Futures Options Feedback: Questions and comments from listeners Question from DWayneh - How are nat gas collars setting up here? Comment from Houstorian - Today in 1901, the first major oil wells come in at Spindletop, south of Beaumont, marking the birth of the oil industry in Texas.