VOLATILITY VIEWPOINT Guest: Simon Ho - CEO, T3 Index What about the burgeoning volatility market in Australia? What is price dragging? How does it help to avoid the manipulation issues plaguing VIX? Is SPIKES performing up to your expectations during the recent resurgence of volatility?       VOLATILITY REVIEW Weak jobs and trade reports SPIKES  -17.25, 2.5-points higher than last show. VIX Cash - 17.50, nearly 3-points higher than last week. VVIX - 91, 11-points higher than last show VIX Options - ADV: 499k, Total 9.23m A ratio stupid of 1x3 roll in VIX VXXB - 34.1, 2.6-point higher than last week.       CRYSTAL BALL Next week: Mark L. - 14.75 Mark S. - 13.75 Simon - 15.25      

TRADING BLOCK Most active indices: VIX - 352k, SPY - 1.65M, SPX - 567k Most active equity options: LLY, NIO, AAPL, FB, GE, BAC, TSLA, AMD, BAB, MSFT OCC February volume down 25.9% after strong 2018       ODD BLOCK Put selling in Kraft Heinz Co (KHC) Puts trading in General Electric Company (GE) More puts trading in Kroger Co (KR)       MAIL BLOCK #QOTW: Everyone in our audience thought 2019's #options volume would eclipse 2018's record volume. But, through February, ADV is down nearly 19% from last year. 2019 is still young so we thought we'd take your pulse again  - will 2019 beat 2018's record  5.1B #options contracts? - Yes - No Question from Tosaw Client - I have a client and listener who asked me an interesting question we can talk about on the show. Why is a call calendar (both above the price of the underlying) more expensive than a put calendar on GOOGL and CRM? This could be a really good discussion.       AROUND THE BLOCK This Week in the Market: Mar 8 - Unemployment

Options news you can use for Friday, March 8, 2019.

Topics this week include: Crude Oil Equities/Russell Ags Metals/Gold       FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Comment from Options Game  Should be a nice TWIFO on Thursday. Ready to talk about Ags? Question from FTTP - All the talk about skew is there any way that I can just buy or sell skew? Is it quoted anywhere as a product that I can trade - maybe Ag skew is high this week and I want to sell it, etc? Question from Mark R. - Which version of QS has the slipping and sliding stuff? Question from Tomas - Do all brokers offer futures options?  

Options news you can use for Thursday, March 7, 2019.

On today's episode, we discuss time bomb butterflies in SPX.  You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition.    Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send them to Brian at [email protected], or to the Options Insider at [email protected].  

Options news you can use for Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Options news you can use for Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

CRYPTO HOT SEAT Guest: Josh Greenwald, CEO, LXDX What products can you trade at LXDX? Why a new crypto derivatives exchange. Why Warrants? Is crypto not ready for institutions? What about a crypto NBBO?       BITCOIN BREAKDOWN BTC down approx. $100 from last show. Some decent size traded on Deribit in the BTC options on Friday?       THE ALTCOIN UNIVERSE Top 10 coins by market cap: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, EOS, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, TRON, Bitcoin SV, Cardano         CRYPTO QUESTIONS Question from Charlotte - Do you think other big banks will follow JPM’s lead with their own coins? Question from Alex King - What products would you like to see listed in the crypto space soon? Question from DXXT9L - Why are the margin requirements for BTC futures so onerous?

TRADING BLOCK Most active indices: VIX - 599k, SPY - 1.67M, SPX - 708k Uber/Lyft drivers may be able to participate in IPO       ODD BLOCK Call love in (BUD) Call overwrite in Workday Inc (WDAY) Call love in SandRidge Energy Inc. (SD)       STRATEGY BLOCK Uncle Mike Tosaw discuses how trading based on a breakout can be beneficial to risk management.         MAIL BLOCK #QOTW: We'll keep it simple to wind down the week. What is your go-to #options strategy right now? Don't see your fav on the list? Reply/DM with your suggestions. 49% - Long Call/Put/Vertical 14% - Short Call/Put/Vertical 20% - Fly/Iron Fly/Condor 17% - Calendar/Diagonal Question from Holscreen - Is it safe to say that a large amount of the options business is devoted to paying for puts? Question from Dana Mac - I’ve heard a lot of talk about contract numbers but how much dollar value is actually transacted in the options market?     AROUND THE BLOCK This Week in the Market Mar 4: Construction Spending Mar 5: New Home Sales, Treasury Budget Mar 6: International Trade Mar 7: Jobless Claims, Productivity and Costs Mar 8: Unemployment

Options news you can use for Monday, March 4, 2019.

Co-Hosts: Shelly Brown - Executive VP, MIAX Joe Braccho - SVP, Head of Sales, MIAX   VOLATILITY VIEWPOINT SPIKES What is it? Why bring it to the market now? SPIKES launched on Feb 21. How did it go? How has the market responded to SPIKES? How is the liquidity shaping up in SPIKES in the early days?       VOLATILITY REVIEW SPIKES - 14.79 VIX Cash - 14.75 VVIX - 80 VIX Options - ADV: 476k, VXXB - 31.5       VOLATILITY VOICEMAIL Question from J Sign - Is Spikes live? I can’t find it on my broker screen? What’s the ticker? Question from Vex1 - Why does it take so long for new volatility products to come to market?       CRYSTAL BALL Next week: Mark L. - 14.50 Mark S. - 13.05

TRADING BLOCK Most active indices: VIX - 138k, SPY - 800k, SPX:477k Most active active equity options: GE, JD, SQ, AAPL, TSLA, CELG, NIO, LLY, BAC, BMY Earnings: Monday - Etsy, Shake Shack Tuesday - Home Depot, Macy’s Wednesday - Lowe’s, Best Buy, Square, Hewlett Packard, Box, Fitbit Thursday - Nordstrom, JcPenney, Gap, Dell, Crocs Friday - Foot Locker       ODD BLOCK Call love in Dell Technologies Inc (DELL) Call overwrite in Fitbit Inc (FIT) Call overwrite plus puts in General Electric Company (GE)       MAIL BLOCK #QOTW: We'll keep it simple to wind down the week. What is your go-to #options strategy right now? Don't see your fav on the list? Reply/DM with your suggestions. - Long Call/Put/Vertical - Short Call/Put/Vertical - Fly/Iron Fly/Condor - Calendar/Diagonal Question from Ben K. - You guys were talking about getting your short spy calls called away on a recent episode. Is that something that occurs often and I should be concerned about it?       AROUND THE BLOCK

Topics this week include: Metals/Gold Crude Oil Equities       FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK PALOOZA Comment from Olive Trader - A long straddle in gold didn’t work for me. You had good points about scalping. My loss has been really small, and I’ve had a few good trades going that this year. Comment from Mark Bryant - I hope cannabis futures will be coming soon. I hope I can get options on cannabis futures. Question from Nashly - Is there the same bias towards puts in most futures options that we see in equity options? Question from Tag Analysis - What’s the difference between a slide and a shift when it comes to skew? Aren’t they the same thing?

OPTIONS 101 Straddles: What is it. What is it useful for? What is it no useful for? How do you make a straddle more useful?     THE BUZZ January numbers are in: Second highest volume January in history       OFFICE HOURS Question from Euro 2 Zero - How do you play earnings that has a lower IV rank (30 day) than IV Percentile (52 Week) Ex. $OKE Question from Bantam Tom - Do most advisors out there primarily trade options in IRAs?

  First we look at recent trades in Pepsi and Nvidia.  Then on today's episode, we use a diagonal spread in Costco.  You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition.    Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send them to Brian at [email protected], or to the Options Insider at [email protected].  

BITCOIN BREAKDOWN BTC at $3593 last show. Spiked up to $4105 on Feb 23 - now back down to $3800. Are the bulls back for BTC? Warren Buffet: Bitcoin Is a ‘Delusion’ But Blockchain Is ‘Ingenious’ Elon Musk Calls Bitcoin ‘Brilliant,’ Better Than Paper Money for Value        THE ALTCOIN UNIVERSE Top 10 Coins: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, EOS, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, TRON, Bitcoin SV, Cardano.       CRYPTO QUESTIONS Question from Hassan H. - Your thoughts on JPM coin? Seems like a big about face for Dimon and Morgan. Question from R5Net - Any thoughts on TRON? Question from Tokenmania - When can we expect more physically settled crypto contracts coming down the pike. Particularly interested in ETH and LTC.

TRADING BLOCK Most active indices: VIX - 968k, SPY - 1.8M, SPX - 670k Most active equity options: GE, AAPL, AMD, BAB, NIO, JD, TSLA, BAC, FB, NFLX Earnings this week Monday - (after the bell) Etsy, Shake Shack Tuesday - Home Depot, Macy’s Wednesday - Lowe’s, Best Buy, Square, Hewlett Packard, Box, Fitbit Thursday - Nordstrom, JcPenney, Gap, Dell, Crocs Friday - Foot Locker         ODD BLOCK Call review from 2/7 in Mohawk Industries, Inc. (MHK) Call palooza from 2/4 in Mattel Inc (MAT)       STRATEGY BLOCK Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses using options with an IRA       MAIL BLOCK 5-Star Review from Jake Luttrell - Great content. Thank you Question from Leg77 - MIAX making it official with 16 exchanges. What do you guys think about more players entering the options game?       AROUND THE BLOCK

Best of Volatility Views: Back to the Beginning It's a shortened holiday week. So we thought we'd take you back to the primordial ooze days of Volatility Views with the inaugural sneak preview episode from August 2011.

TRADING BLOCK More red on the street today. VIX 14.75 - UP .75 Trader are focusing on FANG through Nasdaq futures - http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/14669/traders-are-focusing-on-fang-through-futures       ODD BLOCK Put review from 2/7 in (KAR) Calls trade in (AGI) Call sale in (PGR)     STRATEGY BLOCK Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses his experience defending a client using the law.     MAIL BLOCK Comment from Optionsgame: Translated from French: You should follow @Options. It's a good podcasts that will give you ideas. Comment from Chris Imming: Maybe it is time to question the assumption about the accuracy of analysts estimates. Let's Make Analysts Great Again Comment from Neil Wales - You should have another choice. Have no idea how to trader these things yet.     AROUND THE BLOCK

Topics this week include: Metals/Gold Crude Oil/WTI Equities/RVX Crypto Ags       FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Question from Jose Morales - Why do you like trading opts on WTI instead of USO? USO can be traded in most accounts. Need a futures options account to trade WTI. Question from Brett R. - Can you hit some FX on the show? Question from George Pete - Russell 2000 gets all the love. What about futures options on 1000 or 3000? Or maybe some of the other indices under FTSE umbrella? Question from Khariton - Was there ever a VIX RVX spread product? Thanks for TWIFO show.

Options news you can use for Thursday, February 21, 2019.

THE HUDDLE Comment from Georgi - Hi Brian, Thanks a lot for taking the time and elaborate on my question about OTM Calls, on Jan 17 on Options Playbook Radio! You guys are doing a great job! I have been listening to you for a while and I am very pleased with the content and the way you present it. I enjoyed how you tried to pronounce my Yahoo nickname "joro joro ". My name, in fact, it is Georgi or George in English. Cheers,Georgi G. Question from Dave B. - Hi, I have a question about what is the best strategy to use for my trading system. I typically am only right on about three or four trades out of every 10 with long stock. The trades that I am wrong on, I take a small loss - somewhere between 5 to 10% but only 1-2% of the total capital as I typically take 10% positions. The trades that I am right on, I typically make 50% up to 200% over a 3 to 12 month period. I want to find an options strategy to increase returns via leverage, but keep total portfolio risk per trade about the same. Would DITM calls or spreads make sense to you?  Or is there another strategy I could (should) consider. Thank you! Dave B. Question from T Whitaker - I like all of Brian’s earnings strategy episodes of options playbook. It seems like Brian prefers to use skip strike butterflies whenever trading around earnings. But are there ever times when he will utilize other strategies around earnings - maybe straight long/short calls or puts when he feels there is an edge? Good show and loving the playbook website as an addendum. Question from Leg77 - MIAX making it official with 16 exchanges. What do you guys think about more players entering the options game? Question from LaCrute2 - Funded my Ally options account and I’m enjoying the options playbook program. Thinking about picking up the book as well. We need to have Brian and Mark do a regular show for the Ally options folks that we can listen to while we’re trading.

Options news you can use for Wednesday, February 20, 2019.

Special Panel Presentation: The Evolving Options Audience This is a special event recording of the Evolving Options Audience panel from the Securities Traders Association of Chicago Mid-Winter meeting. The panel took place on 1/17 in Chicago and was chaired by Options Insider Media Group CEO Mark Longo. Joining Mark on stage were: TONY SALIBA, CEO - MATRIX HOLDING GROUP BRIAN OVERBY, SENIOR OPTIONS ANALYST - ALLY INVEST TOBY JOY, HEAD OF TRADING - AKUNA CAPITAL. BILL LOONEY, HEAD OF INDEX OPTIONS STRATEGY - CBOE JON CHERRY, GLOBAL HEAD OF OPTIONS - NORTHERN TRUST CAPITAL MARKETS. JIM HYDE, HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - NYSE OPTIONS. Note: This is an area recording of the panel that includes ambient noise from the conference hall.

Options news you can use for Tuesday, February 19, 2019.

Best Of The Option Block: Back To The Beginning The markets are closed for President's day so the All-Star Panel gets a day off. But that doesn't mean there is no show! Join us for a trip down memory lane to the very first "sneak preview" episode of The Option Block from September 2010. Enjoy!

VOLATILITY REVIEW VIX Cash - 14.8, 2.5-points lower than last week. VVIX - 80, 7.5-points lower than last show. VIX Options - ADV:476k, Total 6.20M (4.86M Calls, 1.34M Puts) VXXB - 32.5, 2.5-points lower than last show. SVXY - 46, unchanged from last show.         VOLATILITY VOICEMAIL #QOTW - $VXX is dead! Long Live $VXXB! There's a (somewhat) new kid on the #Volatility trading block. Are you trading $VXXB #options yet? If not, how are you getting your #Volatility fix these days? $VIX $TVIX $SVXY 43% - Yes: Jumped into $VXXB 11% - No: Spreads are too wide 14% - No: Prefer $TVIX, etc 32% - No: Prefer $VIX #options Question from Thomas Weber - If I am short a deep in the money call in SPY (delta near 1), what are the odds I will be assigned the Thursday night before Friday expiration? Question from Jelevis - Does it make sense to just get long ratio vertical put spreads in VXX as opposed to just buying the puts? Make the premium negligible so you don’t get hurt if it spikes against you in the near term. If it drops it will probably do so slowly so you have time to get out. Or you can just pick up VXX shares - at a hopefully low strike price so further erosion will be limited. Then you can always just wheel out of those if the need arises. Thoughts Vol swammis? This the VXX silver bullet trade?       CRYSTAL BALL Last week: Mark L. - 17.25 Mark S. -  16.25 Next week: Mark L. - 15.50 Andrew - 14.25

Options news you can use for Friday, February 15, 2019.

TRADING BLOCK Another mixed day of the street. EA bouncing back after Fortnite crash and Apex rally. Earning Highlights this Week: Monday - Aurora Cannabis (ACB) Tuesday - Activision Blizzard Wednesday - Cisco Thursday - Nvidia, The Coca-Cola Company, CME Group, Cannabis Growth (CGC), Applied Materials Friday - PepsiCo       ODD BLOCK Near-term ITM call love in Electronic Arts Inc (EA) Call love in CBS Corporation Common Stock (CBS) More paper trading in Centurylink Inc (CTL)       MAIL BLOCK #QOTW - $VXX is dead! Long Live $VXXB! There's a (somewhat) new kid on the #Volatility trading block. Are you trading $VXXB #options yet? If not, how are you getting your #Volatility fix these days? $VIX $TVIX $SVXY - Yes: Jumped into $VXXB - No: Spreads are too wide - No: Prefer $TVIX, etc - No: Prefer $VIX #options Question from Dave B. - Hi, I have a question about what is the best strategy to use for my trading system. I typically am only right on about three or four trades out of every 10 with long stock. The trades that I am wrong on, I take a small loss - somewhere between 5 to 10% but only 1-2% of the total capital as I typically take 10% positions. The trades that I am right on, I typically make 50% up to 200% over a 3 to 12 month period. I want to find an options strategy to increase returns via leverage, but keep total portfolio risk per trade about the same. Would DITM calls or spreads make sense to you?  Or is there another strategy I could (should) consider. Thank you! Dave B. Sent from my iPhone Question from LLAZ - What do you think of call verticals in $USO here? Maybe 3-month 5 or 10% otm? Worth financing with a put? Question from DaQuinta - I've been lured in by the ongoing selloff in crude oil and I'm thinking about setting up a longer-term stock replacement strategy in the USO ETF. I have a couple of questions: A.) With $USO dropping below $11 is it even worth doing or should I just buy the shares instead? Is there a certain threshold where stock replacement stops making sense? B.) My proposed construction is an almost six-month strategy with July 8 Calls for $3.10. So my outlay for 100 shares is $3100 versus $10,800. C. Is it even worth selling a Jan 11.5 call and limiting all of my upside just to collect $.15 or should I keep it open from here?       AROUND THE BLOCK This Week’s Economic Reports Feb 15: Import and Export Prices, Industrial Production, Business Inventories, Consumer Sentiment

Topics this week include: Crude Oil Metals/Gold Ags/Hogs         FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Question from Caesar L. - Why is palladium catching such a bid? Worth more than gold again? Question from Model X - Ask the Russell guy which of the Russell products puts up the most contracts? Also when’s the move/shift stuff coming? Question from Studio64 - Why don’t we see more flavors of equity volatility? There’s VIX and then there’s Eurostoxx and that’s pretty much it. There was talk of more on the horizon but nothing has come of it yet? I’d like more underlying indices other than S&P and more methodology than just the base VIX methodology (maybe some sort of skew product). Thoughts? Question from Brandon Elliot - Have any good rules of thumb when trading the term structure in seasonal products like corn? Maybe a point when the spreads are just too wide or narrow and need to be traded? What’s typical holding period for these trades? Longer than a month? Thx for answering.

Join OIC for a lively discussion featuring our entire Investor Services team – these are the options professionals who help everyone with an interest in expanding their industry knowledge, from those who've never bought a single call to traders and advisors with years of experience. This session will be a showcase of the team, their services and their decades of combined experience with listed options.

We start the show by reviewing the performance of our Pepsico Earnings diagonal spread from last show. This week we breakdown a bullish Christmas Tree Butterfly in NVDA going into earnings. With NVDA at $152.88 Brian wants to buy 1 Feb15 165 Call, Sell 3 Feb15 167.50 Calls and then Buy 2 Feb15 170 Calls for a net credit of $.20

Options news you can use for Thursday, February 14, 2019.

Options news you can use for Wednesday, February 13, 2019.

Options news you can use for Tuesday, February 12, 2019.

CRYPTO QUESTIONS Question from R5Net - Thoughts on Tron? Comment from T Bisc - Heard your comments about Bitmex last show. Think the concerns about using a VPN are overblown. I haven’t encountered any issues. Question from Chat Bot - Doesn’t it seem like most of these big crypto “exchanges’ like Kraken and Coindesk are really just brokers in disguise? Question from TokenMania - When can we expect more physically settled crypto contracts coming down the pike. Particularly interested in ETH and LTC. Question from Tim Michaels - Has the recent pop in BTC caused any changes to the call skew for BTC options?    

TRADING BLOCK Earnings Highlights this Week: Monday - Aurora Cannabis (ACB) Tuesday - Activision Blizzard Wednesday - Cisco Thursday - Nvidia, The Coca-Cola Company, CME Group, Cannabis Growth (CGC), Applied Materials Friday - PepsiCo Pot, soda and videogame earnings are on Wall Street’s to-do list - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/weed-soda-and-videogames-are-on-wall-streets-to-do-list-2019-02-09     ODD BLOCK Size paper trading in SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Explore & Prod. (XOP) Put palooza in Centurylink Inc (CTL) Call palooza in Sangamo Therapeutics Inc (SGMO)     STRATEGY BLOCK Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses the dangers of over trading.     MAIL BLOCK #QOTW - $VXX is dead! Long Live $VXXB! There's a (somewhat) new kid on the #Volatility trading block. Are you trading $VXXB #options yet? If not, how are you getting your #Volatility fix these days? $VIX $TVIX $SVXY - Yes. Jumped into $VXXB - No. Spreads are too wide - No. Prefer $TVIX, etc - No. Prefer $VIX #options Question from JVacx - Whatever happened to the $TSLA 50 put holders? Did they close out? Did they roll? Are they still slinging puts?     AROUND THE BLOCK This Week’s Economic Reports Feb 12: JOLTS Feb 13: CPI Feb 14: PPI, Jobless Claims Feb 15: Retail Sales, Import and Export Prices, Industrial Production, Business Inventories, Consumer Sentiment

Options news you can use for Monday, February 11, 2019

VOLATILITY REVIEW VIX Cash - 17.18, can you say Bullseye!? VVIX - 87.5, approx. 8-points higher than last show, dipped to 76.45 earlier this week. VIX Options - 156k, ADV: 497k, Total 8.72m (6.68m Calls, 2.05m Puts) VXXB - 35, 2-points lower than last show. Today - 40k, ADV - 199k     VOLATILITY VOICEMAIL #QOTW - With everyone still shaking off #SuperBowl haze, let's start the week by applying your trading mindset to next season. If you had to buy a call on one team to make it into next year's big game - which team are you buying? Feeling another team - let us know below. - Patriots - Rams - Bears (legally obligated) - Saints Question from Brian Collamer - Hi Mark, Listened to the last VV show and heard you mention my trade again and thought I'd set the record straight....This trade was in my ROTH, can't be naked anything.  Sold one 15 call, bought two 19 calls. Got a credit of .05c.  Did I buy or sell to open this position? Closed position for a debit of .07c.  Did I buy or sell to close this position? Round trip with commissions cost was a little under $30 (Probably should have bought Salvo's book instead of giving turity bucks to TD Ameritrade...) I think I had the right idea for a hedge, just got the "moneyness" of the strikes wrong. VX curve was very flat. March call prices were very close in price to May calls.  Since I'm paying almost the same price for a May call spread vs a March call spread,does it make sense to get more time to expiration?  Thanks again! Question from BPin - Heard your discussion of the listener question from Brian Collamer on the last few episodes. Seems like the main concern was being short “units.” Can you clarify what you meant by that? Cool show. What do you guys think of the vix coverage on zero hedge? Comment from Options Game - Translated from French by Microsoft - You should follow @Options, it's a good podcasts that will give you ideas.     CRYSTAL BALL Last week: Mark L. - 17.05 Mark S. - 15.25 Next week: Mark L. -17.25 Mark S. - 16.26

Options news you can use for Friday, February 8, 2019.

TRADING BLOCK More Earnings Highlights This Week: Monday - Clorox, Sysco Tuesday - Walt Disney Company, Snap Inc., BP, TakeTwo, Electronic Arts, Viacom, Wednesday - GM, Lilly, Spotify Thursday - Twitter, WWE, Mattel, Grubhub Friday - Cboe, Exelon, Hasbro     ODD BLOCK Upside calls in Mohawk Industries, Inc. (MHK) Calls trade in QuinStreet Inc (QNST) Puts trade in KAR Auction Services Inc (KAR)     MAIL BLOCK #QOTW - With everyone still shaking off #SuperBowl haze, let's start the week by applying your trading mindset to next season. If you had to buy a call on one team to make it into next year's big game - which team are you buying? Feeling another team - let us know below. - Patriots - Rams - Bears (legally obligated) - Saints Question from T Mal - Thoughts on the best options trading platform if most don’t do it right?     AROUND THE BLOCK

FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Question from Franks - What’s the best entry futures option for newbies? I’m thinking something in the equities because most people are coming from stocks? I’d guess stuff like seasonal crop cycles would blow their minds. Question from Behr12 - What do you guys think? I don’t think crude vol can sustain for long at these levels. - RE: Oil: Are Options Signaling Long-Term Uncertainty? https://www.cmegroup.com/podcasts/off-the-charts-podcast-series/oil-are-options-signaling-long-term-uncertainty.html Question from J Swager - We stuck range bound in WTI for next few months between 48-55? Any signs in the vol that we might be heading for a move beyond in either direction? Question from Bob Engles - Do all the synthetics that hold for eq opts like long stock/short call = short put also hold for futures options? Question from Alcore - How far out can I go in eMini S&P or rut options? Does it make sense to do collars out to max expiration? Or maybe just a couple of years? Question from The Poet - What does it mean when an options is delta skewed? Question from Kaichi - You said all vertical trades were skew but what about calendars and diagonals? Isn’t that skew? Comment from Steve A: Best series of shows about trading options on the net Question from Opt Addict - I see a lot of talk about delta neutral trading using equity options but not so much with futures options. Why is that? Is it just not a popular strategy or is there a fundamental difference on the futures side that makes it less viable to dynamically delta hedge a position?

Options news you can use for Thursday, February 7, 2019.

Today Brian breaks down a diagonal spread around Pepsico (PEP) earnings. Tune in to learn how you can implement a similar strategy into your own options trading.  As always, if you have any questions or suggestions for future episodes of Options Playbook Radio please send them to [email protected]

Options news you can use for Wednesday, February 6, 2019.

Options news you can use for Tuesday, February 5, 2019.

CRYPTO HOTSEAT CRYPTO HOT SEAT GUEST: Zac Prince, CEO & FOUNDER - blockfi - - How can you get a loan against your crypto assets? - How does Blockfi verify that the recipient is a legitimate client and not a scammer or money launderer? - Can a retail client establish a high yield savings account using crypto? - What about a credit card? - How do institutions really view the crypto space? BITCOIN BREAKDOWN - BTC effectively unchd from last week - BTC just entered longest bear market in its history - Can BTC halving mark a bounce for bulls? - Kraken buys Cryptofacilities - keeper of Bitcoin Reference Rate Altcoin Universe - XRP failed to maintain rally over 30 cents - LTC and ETH also failed to maintain rallies over the past week - Cryptopia hack and QuadrigaCX password fiasco weigh on Altcoin this week Crypto Questions - Your Questions on Bitmex options, BTC paving the way for Crypto and more