Topics this week include:

• Nasdaq Skew
• Crude Oil
• Gold/Metals
• Winners: Lumber, RBOB
• Losers: Iron Ore, Nat Gas

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say

• Question from Danubs - Can I buy options on milk?
• Question from Bxvets - What's your favorite sell signal?
• Question from Bullobo11 - What was your most recent and promising buy signal and how did you come across it?
• Question from AdmiralTweezers - Do you foresee any innovations in market making such that it might become less centralized or more crowdsourced?
• Question from Michaelbozzello - What's the most valuable lesson you learned as a market maker that you would tell retail traders trading options?
• Question from LL0C - Mine or not to mine? Do you guys rec mining bitcoin before trading it?

Today in the CME hot seat is Derek Sammann, CME Group Global Head of Commodities and Options Products.

Topics this week include:

• Looking back on “Black Monday”
• Crude Oil/WTI
• Gold/Metals
• Winner this week: Lean Hogs

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say

• Comment form T6BTL - Big on Fed watch. Any other cool tech coming to the site?

Options question of the week: Do you think #Options should be traded after-hours like stock?

• 71% - Yes!
• 25% - No!
• 4% - Don't Care!

Topics this week include:

• Gold
• Crude Oil
• Winners: Nat Gas, Palladium
• Losers: Class 3 Milk, Wheat

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners tell us what's on their minds

• Question from TMD4817: Which is a better timeframe for maxing a 1-3 day "swing" trade with options: wkly expire vs out 1 month vs out 2-3 month
• Question from Patrick Rooney: Do you use futures in your strategies? For hedging perhaps? If so, which? $ES_F? $VX_F? Other?
• Question from OpeningBellCo: Which English soccer team do you support? $MANU or not?
• Question from GGLee: Buying collars means buying skew and paying up. So does it stand that the best spy trade is selling skew by selling 25 delta puts and buying 25 delta calls? Maybe add a cheap hedge with 5 or 10 delta put in case worst comes to pass? Right now I can sell the SPY Oct 25D put for $.55, buy the Oct 25D call for $.55 and then buy put hedge for about $.20 net outlay. Thoughts?

Topics this week include:

• Crude hitting an important psychological number
• Comment from Alan: I'm down for some lean hogs and livestock
• Hogs, hog skew (gesundheit) and going hog wild
• Gold, no love for the weeklies, but standard contracts are golden
  • 15,000 Dec 2018 3000-strike calls trade; plus 7,500 each of the 2000 and 2600 strikes.
  • Fat fingers?
  • Doomsday prepper?
  • Mark is rendered speechless

Futures Options Feedback: What is on your mind?

• Question from GNDLF: Which product has the crazies skew? The juciest calls, puts, or both?
• Question from IML: Could the put skew in WTI potentially be due to electric car makers scrambling to hedge their primary risk?
• Question from Mike T.: Where do I get all this CME research?
• Question from NN78: If they did list Bitcoin options, how do you think the skew will look?

Topics this week include:

• Crude Oil
• Corn
• Gold
• Winners: Lean hogs, E-mini, Russell
• Losers: Soybean oil, rough rice, feeder cattle

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners have their say

• Question from Friendship: You mentioned the livestock products are difficult to trade. What makes them so impenetrable?
• Comment from Timz: It seems like there is no reason not to collar gold if you're long.
• Comment from Contempts: I was on the CME Group homepage earlier, and it looks like they're starting to show the love for Bitcoin, too. The screen shot referenced is here.
• Question from O'Neil: Can you break down how the Fed Watch tool works?