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Now displaying: July, 2016
Jul 25, 2016

Today, your TWIFO hosts discuss:

  • Crude
  • Soybeans
  • Gold
  • Silver

Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments

  • Question from OZ22: Why do silver options do so much less volume than gold options?
  • Question from Andy: Hey! The volatility skew for most equity options is called investment skew. Is there a name for the different skews of commodity options as well?

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Jul 19, 2016

This week the TWIFO hosts discuss:

  • What's the story with crude?
  • Why does the front contract trade so much with less than a week to expiration?
  • Jumping back into silver, as skew comes back in
  • Bias still toward calls
  • Watching the narrative in gold
  • What is the Fed up to?
  • And more

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Jul 11, 2016

This week the TWIFO hosts discuss:

  • Silver
  • Non-farms
  • Rates, 10-year
  • Eurodollars
  • Soybeans
  • And more

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Jul 4, 2016

This week the TWIFO hosts discuss:

  • How much has the world changed and yet remained the same since the last episode?
  • What is going to happen to rates?
  • Bonds, 10-year bonds
  • Liquidity in Eurodollars
  • What's happening in currencies?
  • Striking oil
  • The #crazytradeoftheweek
  • And more...

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