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This Week in Futures Options

Gold, crude oil, corn, soybeans and more - with so many tradeable products the futures options market is an intimidating place. How can you possibly keep track of the latest trading activity across so many different products? Don’t worry - we’ve got you covered. Welcome to This Week in Futures Options - the program designed to help active futures options traders stay on top of this ever-changing marketplace. Each week we’ll break down the top trades, hot products, volatility explosions and much more. Whether you’re an experienced veteran or a newcomer looking to separate the wheat from the lean hogs, This Week in Futures Options has the information you can’t find anywhere else...
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Now displaying: January, 2019
Jan 25, 2019

TWIFO 136: Your Burning Questions About Crude, Eurodollars, Equities and More

In this episode Mark is joined by Sean and Nick to answer your questions about:

  • Crude Oil
  • Gold
  • Equities
  • Eurodollars
  • Euro - USD
  • Crypto
  • and more...

 

Jan 16, 2019

TWIFO 135: The Brexit Bounce

Equities
- Strong December for futures options at CME
- Russell futures setting new records in December
- Exploring how equity put writes fared during a tumultuous Q4
- Secret pockets of liquidity for equity futures

FX
- Weekly call skew annihilated in GBP/USD
- Funky Risk Reversal trading in June this week

AGS
- Beans put skew getting bid up this week on strong volume

Hogs
- What is the hog skew predicting going forward?

FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK
This week we field requests for call-in lines, #Hoglove, Beans and even a song.

 

Jan 11, 2019

TWIFO 134: Breaking Equity Secrets

  • HOST: MARK LONGO, OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP
  • CO-HOST: SEAN SMITH, MD - DERIVATIVES LICENSING, FTSE RUSSELL
  • CO-HOST: NICK HOWARD, FOUNDER - BANTIX TECHNOLOGIES

In this episode, Mark and Sean explore the latest trading developments in equity options as well as in crude oil, gold, soybeans, crypto and more. Our listeners also take their turns trying to get Sean to spill his equity product secrets.

Jan 4, 2019

Topics this week include:

Crude Oil

Equities

Metals/Gold

Crypto/Bitcoin

 

FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK

Question from Neail P. - Cattle futures are moving. What are the options telling us?
Question from J Tomas - What do you think of soybean put skew here? Are they still biased toward the downside or has the concern mitigated? Any call love going forward?
Comment from DRI - Thx for this show. Enjoying it very much.
Question from Leo Radjovic - Does the stock substitution strategy work the same with futures options as stock options? Can I still do fig-leaf strategy? Any things to pay attention to between the two? Question from Joel - What secrets does the skew hold for WTI right now? Where is crude oil headed oh skew swamis?

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