This Week in Futures Options 72: The Craziest Gold Trade of the Year

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?