This Week in Futures Options 23: A Crude Oil Wet Blanket

This week your TWIFO hosts discuss: Crude! Pop in IV, love affair with upside calls. WTI lights it up with the Nov 50 strike. Gold! Vol hits multi-year lows. People are paying the rent in gold Surprise product of the week: Lean hogs. 52 puts lighting up the tape. Skew is askew Futures Options Feedback: Listener questions and comments Question from Vegs: Futures have a 63% win rate. How do options compare? What profit percentage do options traders get? Question from Charlie: The economic calendar has many clues as to what might happen. Being a futures trader, I know what to watch. Is there something similar for options traders? You can find all the cool reports Nick talks about on www.cme.com/twio.