The Long & Short of Futures Options

Nov 9, 2015

Today we are joined by Derek Samman, Global Head of Commodities and Options Products at CME Group.

What to Know: Highlights from the last quarter at CME Group.

• Third-quarter 2015 average daily volume was 14.4 million contracts, up 7 percent from third-quarter 2014, and included record quarterly options average daily...

Sep 30, 2015

What to Know: The guest today is Jeff White, Senior Director of Energy Products

What to Watch: Mark and Jeff discuss Calendar Spread Options (CSOs)

What's on Your Mind? Listeners have their say

• Question from ADM -Are there any particular quirks or trading anomalies that you have noticed between options on commodity...

Aug 10, 2015

Today's guest is Erik Norland, Senior Economist at CME Group.

What to Watch: Gold! Futures, to be specific. Erik's paper: Gold Storm on the Horizon. The impact and importance of volatility. The inevitable oil discussion and its correlation to gold. What about the Fed? What is on the horizon? Super contango.

Mar 30, 2015

The guest this episode is David Hightower: Founder of the Hightower Report (http://www.futures-research.com/)

David sat down with Mark to discuss a wide array of agricultural options strategies including:

Corn Strategies(Strategies range from weakest to strongest)

1. BUY 1 December Corn futures contract and BUY 2 May Corn...

Mar 24, 2015

Mark is joined live at FIA Boca by Derek Samman, Global Head of Commodities and Options Products at CME Group.

What to Know: Volumes are through the roof on options. Infrastructure investments are paying dividends. February had over 300,000,000 contracts trade, over 87% of which were electronic. 3,000,000 options...