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This Week in Futures Options 72: The Craziest Gold Trade of the Year
Category: Business
Duration: 01:03:25
Publish Date: 2017-10-09 14:34:40
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Topics this week include:

  • Crude hitting an important psychological number
  • Comment from Alan: I'm down for some lean hogs and livestock
  • Hogs, hog skew (gesundheit) and going hog wild
  • Gold, no love for the weeklies, but standard contracts are golden
    • 15,000 Dec 2018 3000-strike calls trade; plus 7,500 each of the 2000 and 2600 strikes.
    • Fat fingers?
    • Doomsday prepper?
    • Mark is rendered speechless

Futures Options Feedback: What is on your mind?

  • Question from GNDLF: Which product has the crazies skew? The juciest calls, puts, or both?
  • Question from IML: Could the put skew in WTI potentially be due to electric car makers scrambling to hedge their primary risk?
  • Question from Mike T.: Where do I get all this CME research?
  • Question from NN78: If they did list Bitcoin options, how do you think the skew will look?
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