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 particular is very large.
• Question from Adam Coker - Can you explain the nature of options liquidity for the Ags. They seem to have a unique trading structure that's focused around the planting and harvesting cycle. Are those the months that generally have the most volume and volatility?

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 options market. With so many exchanges it's hard to even get a 10-lot spread off these days.
• Question from Taz41 - Can the strategy screener tool handle ratio spreads and iron condors? Thanks for the great show and so many great tools.
• Question from BLIO3T -Which products are the ones that you guys have the hardest time wrapping your heads around? For me, it's the hogs. No thanks.
• Comment from Tom Frank - Not sure I agree with your consensus that covered calls are better for novice options traders. Puts typically have higher implied volatility and should generate higher returns than covered calls over time and have a better risk/reward. The novices would probably appreciate the higher returns.

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

Listener questions and comments:

• Question from Ken Aidan -I'm a crude swinger mostly trading short-term direction intraday in the futures. Are the options good for this use case or is that more for long term strategies?
• Question from Luke T. - Why does USO suck so badly? Not sure why anyone would trade this over the futures?
• Question from Thomas F. - I used to trade a lot of spy options but I've been lured over to the eMinis. Not sure why more people don't trade these things. What do you think it is that keeps people trading spy instead of eMini and what can be done to bring them to the dark side?
• Question from Mark Brant -I'm partial to selling 45d straddles. Does QS highlight the highest IV% straddles of the CME products? It would be cool to sell the richest straddles daily!...45d straddle decay is the universal sweet spot to avoid gamma risk, but only at IV extremes, and even then one can lose a little. SPAN margin is ideal for CME straddles. I will gladly pay for 45d straddle IV reports. Rich straddles are an edge!
• Question from GWCH: You buying that this cryptocurrency rally is based on the sharia law approval?
• Question from BLIO3T:Which products are the ones that you guys have the hardest time wrapping your heads around? For me it's the hogs. No thanks.
• Comment from Mark Brant:Long beans! Also NOB spread has no quit in it!
• Question from Kennedy: Soros is getting into Crypto. Time to sell?

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