This week's CME hot seat guest is Sean Smith from FTSE Russell.

Topics this week include:

• Russell Index
• Crude Oil
• WTI/Brent
• Winners: Oats, Feeder Cattle
• Losers: Silver, Iron Ore

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over the show

Volatility Views/TWIFO Flash Poll: With $SPX #Volatility -aka $VIX- in single digits where are you getting your index vol fix these days?

• Russell 2000: $RVX, $IWM
• Dow: $DJIA, $VXD, etc.
• NASDAQ: $QQQ, $VXN, etc.
• Buying $VIX for rebound.

Listener questions:

• Question from Andrade8 - If RUT and QQQ Vol is always higher than SPY does that mean you're getting paid more to sell OTM puts?
• Question from BLM3 - Is there a big arb between $USO and WTI?
• Question from Bruno - No love for rates on TWIFO?
• Question from Lincoln G - You buying what Dimon is selling about Bitcoin?
• Question from Tatank - Crypto 20X v. other asset classes. Bitcoin for the win.

This episode features special guest Erik Norland, Executive Director and Senior Economist of CME Group

Topics this week include:

• Gold
• Crude Oil
• Winners: Nat Gas, WTI
• Losers: Lean Hogs, Iron Ore

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in

Options Question of the Week: First #Harvey, then #Irma, now #Jose & more. We prep houses/cars/family for #disasters. How do you prep your portfolio?

• Get Long $VIX/$VXX/$UVXY
• Go To Cash/T-bills
• Buy Index/Stock Puts
• "Risk Assets" - Gold, etc.

Listener Questions:

• Question from Uriah - I think CME should do an updated version of the collar study but on futures options? There are a lot of markets on the CME platform that seem well suited to collar trading.
• Question from Tomseh - Can we get a quicktrike skew index that we can track and trade?

Topics This Week Include:

• A reprise of Uncle Mike's silver collar
• What's happening to gold as a result of global unrest?
• Uncle Mike channels Scrooge McDuck
• Hurricanes not yet pummeling crude prices

Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments

• Question from LLCC: Why do you think gold performed so well in the collar study?
• Question from Nelent: How did silver do in that OCC study? Same as gold?

Topics this week include:

• Crude
• Gold
• Winners - R-Bob, Heating Oil
• Losers - Oats, Milk

Futures Options Feedback:

• Question from JLC - Where can I get the collar study referenced on the show?
• Question from Mark T. - So which assets perform the best from a collar perspective?
• Question from Toms - New OIC study coming soon?
• Question from J. Marello - I heard that time decay doesn’t impact straddles the same way in futures options that it does in stocks. Is that true and are straddles better to buy in futures options for this reason?