Let’s kick off the new year with a blast from the past – the world premiere episode of The Futures Options Roundtable from 2013. Enjoy!
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We’ve sounded the horn and assembled a team of futures options experts for your listening pleasure. In this premiere episode of the Futures Options Roundtable Options Insider Founder Mark S. Longo is joined by:
- Jeff Lewandowski?- CTA, Protean Trading
- Dan Collins?- Former EIC, Futures Mag, Founder, Dan Collins Report
- Dan Cook?- Director, Business Development, Nadex
- Dave Rodgers?- Instructor and Trader at Markettaker.Com
The Guild Hall Segment
- The roundtable breaks down the benefits and drawbacks of futures options vs. equity options.
- The panelists discuss the different ways that binary options can be used to speculate on or hedge against commodity price movement.
- The panelists also discuss some of the salient aspects of futures options trading that all traders need to watch out for including seasonality.
The Grand Marketplace Segment
- We break down the big moves and exploding volatility in precious metals and energy.
- Realized vol is starting to outpace implied volatility in many commodity products – an ideal time to be a buyer of premium not a seller.
- Dan sees aggressive hedging activity in Nadex metals contracts.
- A discussion of how to use binary spreads to trade multiple products and expiration dates.
- We wrap things up by analyzing the explosion of anticipation in oil options as well as how the Egyptian unrest impacted oil’s volatility skew.