Featured Interview Options Insider Radio Interviews: Exploring the Future of Bitcoin with CBOE Posted September 11th, 2017 In this episode, Mark is joined by Michael Mollet, Director of Product Development at CBOE and CFE. They discuss: - Bitcoin and the potential for listed derivatives
- What is the proposal?
- Why now?
- Partnering with Gemini
- What exactly is the product they plan to launch?
- How is settlement determined?
- What is the timing on releasing this product?
- Will there be Bitcoin options?
- What about a Bitcoin VIX?
- What about other cryptocurrencies?
- What else is on the CFE horizon?
Upcoming Economic Reports A preview of what may move the market this week
| TIME (ET) | REPORT | PERIOD | PREVIOUS | | MONDAY, JUNE 11 | | 11:00 AM | Survey of consumer expectations | Â | Â | | TUESDAY, JUNE 12 | | 6:00 AM | NFIB small-business index | May | 104.8 | | 8:30 AM | Consumer price index | May | 0.20% | | 8:30 AM | Core CPI | May | 0.10% | | 2:00 PM | Federal budget | May | Â | | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 | | 8:30 AM | Producer price index | May | 0.10% | | 2:00 PM | FOMC announcement | Â | Â | | 2:30 PM | Jerome Powell press conference | Â | Â | | THURSDAY, JUNE 14 | | 8:30 AM | Weekly jobless claims | 2-Jun | N/A | | 8:30 AM | Retail sales | May | 0.30% | | 8:30 AM | Retail sales ex-autos | May | 0.30% | | 8:30 AM | Import price index | May | 0.30% | | 10:00 AM | Business inventories | April | 0.00% | | FRIDAY, JUNE 15 | | 8:30 AM | Empire state index | June | 20.1 | | 9:15 AM | Industrial production | May | 0.70% | | 9:15 AM | Capacity utilization | May | 78.00% | | 10:00 AM | Consumer sentiment index | June | 98 |
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Options Insider Radio Network Episodes you may have missed from Options Insider Radio last week Posted June 8th, 2018 Trading Block: Earnings! - Monday - Dell, PaloAlto, CSMC, Orion
- Tuesday - HD Supply, Duluth Trading, Navistar
- Wednesday - Signet, Knot, SecureWorks,
- Thursday - Smuckers, Broadcom, At Home
- Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon join forces to convince CEOs to end quarterly profit forecasts
Odd Block: Size opening puts in Banco Bradesco (BBD), Size opening call sale in Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI). Mail Block: Options question of the week Google Trends is full of interesting, and surprising, data. When you analyze the "options" search data you uncover some surprising results. Which brings us to this week's question: Which "subregion" is currently ranked one for overall "options" interest by Google? - Illinois
- California
- New York
- Maine
Flash Poll: Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checking with your broker)! What does your gut tell you? VIX? Bitcoin? TSLA? RUSSELL2000? RUT? IWM? - Tesla, TSLA
- VIX
- Bitcoin
- Russell 2000: Emini, RUT
Listener questions and comments: - Comment from Till - I'm looking forward to the rock lobster's ongoing webinar series on Asian options.
- Question from DollClub - How do you price ratio spreads. If it's a long 1x2 do you just multiply the cost of the second leg by 2 and then subtract it from the long leg? Is it just that simple?
- Question from Division1 - Why has there never been a cool trading video game? Options or stocks I don't care. Maybe Insider should do it?
Around the Block: What's on the radar for next week?  Posted June 7th, 2018 Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send them to Brian at theoptionsguy@invest.ally.com, or to the Options Insider at questions@theoptionsinsider.com.  In this interview, Mark is joined by Rob Brogan, Vice President of Equity Derivative Servies at FlexTrade. They discuss: Monitoring real-time risk APIs vs front end The fight for screen space Liquidity issues Too many strikes, too few trades And more... Posted June 6th, 2018 In this interview, Mark is joined by Rob Brogan, Vice President of Equity Derivative Servies at FlexTrade. They discuss: - Monitoring real-time risk
- APIs vs front end
- The fight for screen space
- Liquidity issues
- Too many strikes, too few trades
- And more...
 Posted June 5th, 2018 Trading Block: Last week in review - Is the trade war back on the table?
- The May number are in: OCC cleared contract volume increased 8% in May.
- Credit Suisse announces 1-to-10 reverse split for $TVIX and $TVIZ effective June 8th.
Odd Block: Ratio call spread in Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO), put apocalypse in Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), and put roll in iShares MSCI Turkey Index Fund (TUR). Strategy Block: Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses how to trade skew. Around the Block: What are we looking at for the upcoming week? Â Posted June 5th, 2018 In this episode, Mark is joined by Kapil Rathi, Head of Equity Options at Cboe. They discuss: - How many exchanges are too many exchanges?
- Is it time to review the regulatory environment?
- Liquidity issues
- Limiting the live order book
- SPY volatility products
- After-hours options trading
- Listing crypto options
- And more...
 Posted June 4th, 2018 Volatility Review: A look back at the week from a volatility perspective - VIX Cash - 15.43, 3 points higher than last week.
- VVIX - 95, 5 points higher than last week.
- VIX Options - ADV: 557k (substantially lower than last show), VIX call/put: 2.8/1, Total 7.00m (5.14m Calls, 1.85m Puts)
- What about the roll from June to July 37.5?
- VXX - 35, 1 point lower than last week.
- Paper buys size VXX July call spread.
- VIX-mageddon revisited: it's the buyers who disappeared
Volatility Voicemail: Options question of the week Holiday Weekends are notoriously tough for VIX traders. The markets love to crush Volatility going into these events. So we thought we'd poll the savvy VIX traders in our audience - where do you think VIX will OPEN on Tues 5/29? - 39% - Here: 12-14
- 30% - Higher: 14-16
- 18% - Lower: 10.5-12
- 13% - Much Higher: >16
Flash Poll: Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checking with your broker)! What does your gut tell you? VIX? Bitcoin? TSLA? RUSSELL2000? RUT? IWM? - Tesla, TSLA
- VIX
- Bitcoin
- Russell 2000: Emini, RUT
Listener questions and comments: - Comment from Charles Montgomery Burns releasethehounds -I enjoyed listening to the broadcast today. Excellent
- Question from Ned Brown - I wish it was made clear in these articles that the problem seems to be around settlement in the VIX. A good idea on orders to bring more liquidity into the settlement. I assumed the big volatility was the reason crypto options weren't being pushed. Has anyone asked the SEC about them?
- Question from Bellat - What do you think of crypto Vol at these levels particularly bitcoin? Are you guys doing any trading even though there aren’t really any true options available yet?
- Question from Pilz - Did we ever uncover the mystery behind 50 cent?
Crystal Ball: Your prognostication headquarters Last week: - Mark L. -12.95
- Mark S. -13.50
This week: - Mark L. -12.95
- Mark S. - 12.50
 Posted June 4th, 2018 Topics this week include: - WTI/Crude
- Gold
- Equities
- Ags/Soybeand
- Rates
- Crypto
Futures Options Feedback: Flash Poll! Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checking with your broker)! What does your gut tell you? VIX? Bitcoin? TSLA? RUSSELL2000? RUT? IWM? - Tesla, TSLA
- VIX
- Bitcoin
- Russell 2000: Emini, RUT
Listener questions and comments: - Question from Ned Brown -You had a guest on a few weeks back and he mentioned what he thought Bitcoin volatility would be on the options. You would think it would be an instant winning product. I've always thought the tricky part is finding the market makers to provide the liquidity...I assumed the big volatility was the reason crypto options weren't being pushed. Has anyone asked the SEC about them?
- Question from BB88 -How do I do what Nick said last week to see the options activity on that day's expiring future?
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