This Week in Futures Options

Today's CME hotseat guest is Matt Bradbard, Director of Alternative Investments, RCM Topics this week include: Where is the vol? New Zealand Dollar (our surprise product of the week) Crude Oil Corn Futures Options Feedback: Polls, questions, comments and more! TWIFO Flash Poll: Which Options product had largest % change in open interest over the past week? 50% - Soybeans 25% - Emini Nasdaq 100 8%...

Today's special guest is Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity Products at CME Group. Topics this week include: Russell Index Ags Soybeans Corn Futures Options Feedback Flash Poll There is some volatility rocking in the ags this week. Which product would you say is on your radar, or perhaps in your portfolio? Soybeans Corn Wheat Other Listener questions and comments: Question from Nicker - Which majo...

Topics this week include: Crude Gold Reuters takes a page from TWIFO Silver Being jaunty Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over Options question of the week. Let's get back to basics. #Options are great way to get long (bullish) exposure to stocks & futures. What's your fav way to go long? Long Call/Call Spread Short Put/Put Spread Stock(Future) Replacement Bullish Risk Reversal ANOTHER Opt...

Topics this week include: Crude/WTI Gold Corn Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over the show Options Question of the week: Let's get back to basics. #Options are great way to get long (bullish) exposure to stocks & futures. What is your favorite way to go long? Long Call/Call Spread Short Put/Put Spread Stock(Future) Replacement Bullish Risk Reversal Listener questions and comments: Questi...

Topics this week include: Corn Crude Oil/WTI Flash Poll: Crude Oil is taking a beating. Is the selloff overdone or is it a sign of things to come. Where do you think WTI will be at the end of 2017? Around here (40-45) Much lower (lower than 38) A little higher (50-55) Much higher (above 55) Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Ian Wagner: Hey TWIFO. I'm confused...

Topics this week include: E-Minis Rates - Question from Allan German - What happened in rates options this week with the Fed? Crude Futures Options Feedback: Polls, questions, answers, and more! With $VIX giving up the ghost - which products are you hoping will provide new sources of #Volatility for your #options trading? 33% - Crude Oil (WTI, etc.) 20% - Metals ($GLD, $SLV, etc.) 20% - FX (GBP/US...

This week's CME Hotseat guest is Sarah Linane, E*Trade Senior Futures Specialist This week, the panel discusses: From Stocktwits The 3 BEST performing assets this year: Lean hogs $HE_F +23% Palladium $PA_F +22% Nasdaq-100 $QQQ +20% The 3 WORST performing assets this year: Orange juice $OJ_F -32% Sugar $SB_F -29% The $VIX -21% Other hot topics: Crude Weekly expiration options Gold Futures Options F...

Topics this week include: Silver Platinum Crude Futures Options Feedback: What do you want us to talk about? Comment from Production One‏ @MarkClydeBrant: Bellies! Comment from f ili p @FContangotrader: What about bitcoin,no love? Comment from Elmman: Can you talk more FX? GBP/USD and EUR/USD. Question from Lezen: Which product has the hottest weekly options? Question from LJack: Heard you mention...

Topics this week include: Crude/WTI and gold. Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Olivetrader1: During the last show you mentioned defending a straddle. That means buying futures as soon as we are trading under the put and selling futures as soon as they are trading above the call, or is there more room for execution. Comment from FContangotrader: I cannot wait...

Today, Mark and Nick are joined by Matt Bradbard, Director of Alternative Investments, RCM Alternatives. Topics this week include: Crude Oil Gold Futures Options Feeback: Listener questions and comments Question from Andy Sullivan - You guys buying this rally in WTI, or are the options telling a different story? Question from Jingles6 - Dudes! You're missing out on the hot new commodity trend, Cry...

We're going back into the TWIFO archives to bring you a best of episode. This one was a fan favorite: How to Trade Commodity Volatility.

This week in the CME hot-seat we have special guest Dan Passarelli, Market Taker Mentoring . Topics this week include: WTI What's the word on the street for futures traders? Aggressive return to old skew? Fed week came and went Treasuries Eurodollars Futures Options Feedback/Weekend Flash Poll: These are crazy times for all markets from commodities to equities and volatility. Which crazy level wil...

Topics this week include: WTI Gold Soybeans Futures Options Feedback Listener questions and comments Question from LlillyPod - What is up with Soybeans? Good collar territory again? Comment from Tommi - I think WTI weeklies struggle because producers are focused on the longer portion of the curve. Question from Neil Avere - Can you rundown Quikskew again. Still not really sure how to read it. Comm...

Topics this week include: WTI Gold Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Silvan - Does Quikstrike actually quantify the rent? So you could collect X rent in product Y if you sold it, etc. Also how do I read that quickskew graph? Not sure I'm looking at it correctly. Question from Meravol - Interesting piece in Modern Trader about selling breakeven strangles. Have...

Originally posted on January 23, 2017, this "Best Of" This Week in Futures Options features Blu Putnam Chief Economist of CME Group. Topics in this episode include: The election, inauguration WTI/Brent spread QuikStrike Future Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Jeff Myers: What is the prediction for platinum options? Question from Eddy: Is the trade in crude more cauti...

Topics this week include: WTI/Crude Oil Gold Skew Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Andrew L. - On the note of your oil sulfur question here is another weird one that's been bugging me. If I buy a contract for a barrel of oil and take delivery do I actually get the barrel? Question from SillyPuddy - I am a newly minted FO approved trader but yet to make my fir...

In the CME hot seat for this episode, we have Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity Products, CME Group. Topics this week include: QuikSkew Index Options Crude Oil/WTI Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from A Joban - When are we gonna have weeky options expiring on every day of the trading week? So affectively I am asking when are we gonna have daily options? Question...

This week we have special guest Andrew Giovinazzi. The gang discusses: S&P/E-Mini Skew Skew WTI Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from ALV13 - What the heck makes crude sweet? Slightly off topic but its always bothered me. Question from Henry VII - How closely related are the fundamentals of ES and ES Mini options vs. SPY and SPX? Are the volatility, skews, OIs and...

Topics this week include: Showing signs of life in WTI/Crude Oil Follow along at cmegroup.com/twifo Gold Low vol/high gamma What's paying the rent? Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question/Comment from John Pagnola - Looks like you were right about a selloff lifting OIV in the short term. But that's obviously coming off now. Now that we are in this new paradigm what do yo...

Topics this week include: What would it take for a crude selloff? Oil/WTI: Updates, strikes, open interest, paying the rent Gold: December 1400 calls? Want more: check out cmegroup.com/twifo

This week in the CME hot seat we have Erik Norland, Executive Director and Senior Economist of CME Group. Topics this week include: Rates Beware as Debt Ceiling Meets Fiscal Ambitions Hedging the Next Explosion in High-Yield Bond Spreads Oil Oil: Will Rising U.S. Output Stifle Post-OPEC Gains? You can always follow along on cmegroup.com/twio Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comment...

This week features Larry Shover co-founder of Mutual Fund Solutions Group . Topics this week include: Crude Oil WTI Silver Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from LL43: Is buying straddles a more effective strategy in #futuresoptions due to the different nature of decay or is it still necessary to scalp aggressively to survive? Comment from Hawkeye: The Business Sho...

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 longer term calls you outlined in gold...

We have a very special guest this week, Dan Passarelli, the Founder of Market Taker Mentoring . Topics this week include: Brent/WTI Spread Vol Skew Gold Futures Options Feedback: Quizzes and questions and comments TWIFO Pop Quiz: What is your go-to Futures Options strategy? Did yours not make the cut? Reply/DM with it and we'll read the best on TWIFO Long Call/Vertical Long Put/Vertical Covered Ca...

Topics this week include: WTI/Brent spread Gold Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from JVIL: Can we get an update on corn? Question from Alan Mayne: What's it going to take to bump WTI volatility back into the 2016 range? Question from TLOCA4: How do I find the quickskew setting on quikstrike? I checked www.cmegroup.com/twio and I can't find it. Am I on the right p...