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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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This Week in Futures Options 130: Cooking With Gas, Beans and Oil

Dec 14, 2018

Topics this week include:

  • Soybeans
  • Crude Oil
  • Nat Gas
  • Equities
  • Metals/Gold
  • Crypto/Bitcoin
  • Winners: KC Wheat, Iron Ore, Palladium
  • Losers: Nat Gas, Rough Rice, E-Mini Russell 2000

Futures Options Feedback: Listeners take over

  • Question from JLN7 -Is it safe to write calls in nat gas again?
  • Question from Mainev -Didn't quite catch the logic of the guest last show re: equities strangles. How would selling strangles help you rebalance your equities portfolio? Thx for this. Also enjoying Options Playbook.
  • Question from Neal J. - Does put-call parity work the same for futures options as it does for equity options? Thank you for all your free content.
  • Question from Brandon Elliot - Have any good rules of thumb when trading the term structure in seasonal products like corn?
  • Question from Oytrate - What is a reason that someone would write ITM covered calls? Seems like a waste of time to me since you're capping all of your upside.
  • Comment from Kelly Lef - Thought the user tip to exercise deep ITM calls to save on the spread was a good one. So I checked a few of my stock replacement positions that had gone ITM. Turned out the spreads were fairly similar to the spread on the underlying stock index so the any savings were pretty small. Not really worth the hassle to go through the exercise process. Maybe I'm just trading a more liquid index than that listener or am I missing something?