Topics this week include:

• Crude
• Ags/Soybeans
  • Question from LLN9 - Are beans calls showing any hope for an upside move in next six months?
• Bitcoin/Crypto

Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments

• Question from HLC - I have a couple of FOPs that are going to expire deep in the money but covered by the underlying long future position. When should I expect the long position to disappear from my account so I can hedge accordingly? Would I have the position till EOD Friday or is Thursday the last day? Or it would disappear from my account anytime during Friday?
• Question from Joanna Lan - What kind of courses do they offer at the CME institute? Are they all in-person or online?
• Question from Da Brezner - Nick from QuikStrike has suggested being long gold with a hedge. Is he just suggesting being long the futures with a long put hedge or just long gold deltas through something like a risk reversal and then having a long put kicker?

Topics This Week Include:

• Silver/Gold
• Crude
• Equities/Russell

Futures Options Feedback

• Question from Daniel - Saw what looked like a gold fly in the TWIFO report but Nick from QuikStrike said he didn't see it in the block reports. Why is that? Are all trades not reported in the block trade reports?
• Question from Yancy - I heard it said that there are 20 active names and about 75 tradeable names in the equity options market for retail and that's about it. How does it shake out in futures options?

Topics this week include:

• Crude
• Equities/Russell
• Metals/Gold
• Ags/Soybeans

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in

• Comment from L Sert - Missed Nick on the show. What's his thought on the big $150 crude prediction?
• Question from P Kell - Looking at CME TWIFO page and trying to figure it out. What do the numbers in the 25D and 25D QuikSkew columns mean? Apologize if you've answered this before but just discovered the show.

Topics this week include:

• Metals
• Crude
• Equities/Russell
• Ags/Soybeans
• Crypto/Bitcoin

Futures Options Feedback: Listners chime in

• Comment from Trade_The_Swing -Today is sunny as trade tariffs begin, yesterday was cloudy as trade tariffs were about to start, tomorrow will be hot weather cause tariff war de-escalate, all this tariffs noise is beyond silly.
• Comment from Son of Algos - #BuckleUp #TradeWar No #MAGA Just massive debt, shrinking system liquidity & Trump plunging the West into the Dark ages.
• Comment from Leveq - I agree with your other listener that it's the brokers putting the brakes on weeklies. I don't even see them listed on my platform. Wth?
• Question from Desmond - What is the one thing you think people really should know, but don't about the differences between futures options and equity options?

Topics this week include:

• Crude
• Equities/Russell
• Ags
• Gold
• Bitcoin

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over

FlashPoll: Crude oil has been on a tear this week. We know that many of you are trading options on this hot commodity. Quite simply - which options product are you using to slake your thirst for Crude oil? WTI? USO? XLE?

• WTI
• USO
• XLE
• Other

Listener questions and comments:

• Comment from Olivetrader2 -I may have the key to the weeklies mystery or I may be captain obvious. If I want to trade weeklies I need to ask for weeklies options limits to my clearing firm. Regular options limits don't apply. I use @Trading_Tech. I never asked for them because my trading results are usually not good around expiration. And weeklies = more expirations.
• Question from Leif - Is the use case for Russell 2000 options the same as S&P and Nasdaq - primarily covered calls and protective puts?
• Question from Tatuf - It looks like crude is setting up to be a decent candidate for call ratio spreads (short 1, long 2). Certainly would have worked out well over past few weeks. Am I just blinded by recentness or does skew data support this long term? OTM calls typically aren't bid too aggressively in WTI.
• Question from CRHabib - Can CME put out straddle runs on the bitcoin futures contract? That would be fascinating and quite useful.