This episode was originally posted on August 28th, 2017

Topics this week include:

• S&P and other indexes
• Silver and Gold
• Crude Oil
• Winners: Copper, Soybean oil
• Losers: Lean hogs, corn

Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments

• Question from Sho Odwa -Hi! Which website publishes real-time commodity options quotes
• Comment from Allan -I would have thought KC Wheat would be the winner?
• Question from NN0M -Why did Tosaw put on a two year collar in silver? Why that time frame?
• Question from ReallyG -Love your #podcasts! Question: market profile displays limit orders. Is there a service that displays stop orders? Just wondering

Question from TheBiggers: Calls are typically more bid in futures options than equity options. So does it stand that collars are more effective in futures options?

Topics this week include:

• Crude
• Equities/S&P
• Metals/Silver
• Bitcoin/Crypto

Futures Options Feedback: Options question of the week

We're talking about #Crypto #Derivatives at the upcoming @BlockchainVoice Conference (register at http://VoiceOfBlockChain.com). So this week we want to know which #Crypto product you'd like to see listed on a major venue next.

• 72% - Bitcoin Options
• 8% - Ripple Options/Futures
• 15% - Ether Options/Futures
• 5% - Litecoin Options/Futures

Listener questions and comments:

• Comment from Umesh - (SEC rejecting Bitcoin ETFs) May be they only like to trade futures #BTC
• Comment from Apex Trading - Good. I have several wells and the low gas price has been sucking!
• Question from Lil Danger - First selloff, then NVDA, now SEC rejects bitcoin. Is the bloom off the crypto rose?
• Comment from LVers - Hogs please.
• Question from Splitsville - Why is long put/covered call a "collar" while short put/long call is a "risk reversal?" Never understood that one.

Topics this week include:

• Crude/WTI
• Ags/Soybeans
• Equities
• Metals/Gold
• Bitcoin/Crypto

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take the reins

• Comments on the U.S./China soybean battlefield
• Ned Brown has comments on the switch from soybeans to sugar cane
• Keifer says don't expect business to come back to the U.S. once the tariff is lifted.
• Liz O. wants to know where to find all of Blu's research (Right here!)
• Wild Tiger likes the July options review
• XRP Please: Thanks for the hard work to build XRP liquidity

Today we are joined by:

• Mike Tosaw from St. Charles wealth management
• Sean Smith, Managing Director of Derivatives Licensing at FTSE Russell
• Ron Bundy, CEO of Benchmarks, North America at FTSE Russell

Topics this week include:

• Equities
• Indices/Russell
• Crude/WTI
• Metals/Silver
• Winners: Oats, Nat Gas, Iron Ore
• Losers: Rough Rice, WTI, Lumber

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in

• Question from Dolamite - What's the best way to harvest the higher levels of volatility in the Russell 2000?
• Question from Leevy - Is this a favorable environment for metals collars - looking at mostly gold and silver not copper or industrial.

Our featured guest in this episode is Blu Putnam, Chief Economist at CME Group.

Topics this week include:

• Crude/Brent/WTI
• Equities/Russell
• Ags/Soybeans
  • Question form Robinar - La nina or el nino? Which one is good for U.S. Ags? I always forget.
• Gold/Metals
• Bitcoin/Crypto