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The Long and Short of Futures Options: Futures Options Trends, Surprises and Volatility
The Long & Short of Futures Options
10/27/16 • 67 min
Coming to you from the Futures Industry Conference in Chicago, Mark is joined by Nick Howard, founder of QuikStrike and Derek Samman, CME Group Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Options and Products.
They discuss:
- The great year that CME has been having in 2016
- This outsize growth was fueled by options
- What trends are we seeing in futures options?
- Are retail traders becoming more active in futures options?
- The trend towards trading on microevents
- The short-duration expiration options. Will there be daily expiration options?
- Crude! Puts are still very expensive
- Natural gas options business grew 40% year-over-year
- Soybeans driven by volatility and volatility skew
- 72% of ag options are trading electronically
- Managing options flow outside of seasonal patterns
- Metals! It's been an interesting year.
- Gold call bias...the rent is cheap
- Don't forget the less sexy metals
- What can we look forward to from CME in the next year?
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Forex Options
The Long & Short of Futures Options
03/27/13 • 58 min
Today's guests are Craig Leveille, Executive Director, FX Products, and Jeff Lewandowski, CTA, Foremost Trading
What to Know:What you should know about CME's FX Products
- Who is the typical customer of CME Group's FX products?
- How have trends impacted the volume and trends in the Euro option products in recent months?
- What are some of the hot trends right now in you other products?
- We've seen extremely low levels of volatility on the equity front. Are we seeing similar volatility reductions in the FX realm as well?
- Were there any FX option products/spreads/strategies that really resonated with your clients?
What's New:
- USD/CNH (offshore Chinese Renminbi) futures launched February 25, 2013.
- Mini/short-duration products are all the rage, any new upcoming products in that category?
- Any other major FX product launches on the horizon?
- Do you ever think we'll operate in a world where customers are able to execute via the greeks across a broad spectrum of products
What to Watch: Are we all waiting for the next shoe to drop in the Eurozone?
What's on your Mind: Answering listener mail
- Email form Joe O'Reilly - I'm a covered call writer who is interested in currencies (particularly the Euro and Aus). How does the smile-type skew in the products impact a covered call writer like myself? Is there anything I should be aware of when writing these products? Should I reconsider my typical equity covered call strategy of sticking with ITM calls because there is more volatility in the currency wings? Any insight that you could provide would be deeply appreciated. And I hope LSFO is on much more regularly in 2013. I look forward to these episodes.
- Email from Syrin Dunapar, Cyprus - What impact, if any, do you feel the inclusion of Turkey into the EU would have on the Euro and Euro volatility?
- Tweet from Joey B - Are institutional customers typically net buyers or sellers of currency volatility?
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Talking Volatility, Indices and ETFs
The Long & Short of Futures Options
06/13/12 • 37 min
In this episode, Mark is joined by Scot Warren, Senior Managing Director of Equity Index Products at CME Group.
What to Know: An overview of the deal CME struck with McGraw-Hill for the S&P indices.
- Is this joint venture as a great way to help penetrate developing and emerging markets outside the USA?
- Scott walks through the deal to license the VIX methodology from the CBOE as well.
- An update on the NYMEX crude oil VIX and the Gold VIX
- Is there any plan to take the next step into an actual, tradable soybean and/or corn VIX right now?
- Are there any plans to continue licensing the realized vol methodology for the vol contracts on the Euro, or other methodologies?
What's New: It's time for volume numbers, an overall down month. Does CME's options complex follow in similar suit? The short duration contracts have really diverge into two use-cases, between equity options and futures options.
What to Watch:
- Updates on the development you have coming down the pipe in ETF options.
- Will mini options going to be another new product trend that you continue to push going forward?
- What other platform and tools upgrades can a futures options trader expect in the near future?
- Are you happy to know you have the best offering from a spread perspective for options traders?
- Do you see incentivizing the professional audience as an important initiative for the CME?
What's on Your Mind: Taking on Listener questions
- Does the CME's licensing deal with the S&P mean that they can trade SPX contracts at the CME? If not, then what about when the CME license expires? Does the CME plan to list SPX at that time? (Via email from Tim W., Tacoma, WA)
- Trading Futures on Apple. The CME has completely missed out on the explosion of interest in single name equities, like Apple, Google, etc., I'd imagine this should be a very interesting business for them. Are there any plans to revitalize the single stock futures market. Perhaps through 1 Chicago, so the CME can list futures and options, and futures options on single name equities. Also, if possible, I would long to have Long and Short of Futures Options come out more frequently than once a month. Right now this is pretty much the only futures options game in town, so we need more of it. (Via The Options Insider forum from Monkey Boy)
- What are CME group's plans for the VIX license or more tradable products on the horizon? (Via Twitter from Alex103)
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Precious Metals and FX
The Long & Short of Futures Options
10/26/11 • 49 min
Precious Metals and FXJoin Options Insider Founder Mark Longo as he dives into two of the hottest product categories in world of futures options - Metals and FX. Mark is joined by Craig LeVeille, Director of FX Products and Patricia Cauley, Director of Metals Products, CME Group.WHAT TO WATCH?
- BREAKING DOWN THE METALS OPTIONS VOLUME EXPLOSION - WHY ARE METALS SO HOT RIGHT NOW?
- FX OPTIONS VOLUME RUNDOWN - WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE EURO?
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF METALS CONTRACTS ARE BEING EXECUTED ELECTRONICALLY THESE DAYS?
- PLATINUM - WHY HAS THIS PRECIOUS METAL FAILED TO CAPTURE THE SPOTLIGHT LIKE GOLD & SILVER?
- INDUSTRIAL METALS: HAS THE SPOTLIGHT BEEN STOLEN BY THE MORE RETAIL-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS?
WHAT'S NEW?
- OVERVIEW OF MINI-METALS AND WEEKLY METALS OPTIONS CONTRACTS.
- GOLD VIX - PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
- WHAT IS GOING ON WITH EURO VOLCONTRACTS?
- EXPLOSION IN ELECTRONIC EXECUTION FOR METALS AND FX - A BOON FOR THE RETAIL FUTURES OPTIONS TRADER.
- NEW CUSTOMERS DISCOVERING FUTURES OPTIONS INCLUDING FINANCIAL ADVISORS AND HIGH-END RETAIL TRADERS.
WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?THE LISTENERS TAKE OVER THE SHOW WITH QUESTIONS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
- LIQUIDITY IN METALS OPTIONS
- WEEKLY METALS OPTIONS
- HOW/WHEN THE CME DECIDES TO ADJUST MARGIN REQUIREMENTS
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Equity and Index Options Updates
The Long & Short of Futures Options
05/15/14 • 22 min
In this episode, Mark is joined by Scott Warren, Senior Managing Director of Equity Products and Index Services at CME Group.
What to Know: Overview of volume trends, working with clients to find efficiency in options on futures, volatility and its impact on the market, retail growth. Smaller-size, smaller-duration products. Weekly options and their use. Products on the Nikkei. The NASDAQ growth story. Client demand and new tools. Shining light on margin.
What's on Your Mind? Listener question about index expiration.
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Smashing Records
The Long & Short of Futures Options
10/10/14 • 22 min
In this special edition of the Long and Short of Futures Options, Mark is joined by Derek Samman, Group Global Head of Commodities and Options Products at CME Group.
They discuss:
- Structural changes at CME Group
- Record volume in the options complex in September, up 20% year-over-year
- Growth in electronic options trading
- Futures and options set an all-time record for open interest on September 11
- All-time record volume in FX options as precipitated by the Scotland vote
- The return of volatility
- Enthusiastic uptake in the interest rates complex, especially around Fed announcements
- Updates from the ags complex – 40% growth year-over-year
- Bringing more participants to the market
- And more
The Long and Short of Futures Options: 2015 Q3 Review
The Long & Short of Futures Options
11/09/15 • 31 min
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 volume as well as double digit growth across all commodities product lines. Clearing and transaction fee revenues were $715 million, up 11 percent compared with third-quarter 2014. Market data revenue was $100 million, up 13 percent compared with the third quarter last year. Third-quarter 2015 total average rate per contract was 75.9 cents, down from 77.7 cents in second-quarter 2015, driven primarily by higher volume discounts as well as a sequential product mix shift from commodities to equity index products which capture lower fees.(Source: CME Group)
- Q3 options volume reached a record level of 2.9 million contracts per day. We also saw the highest percentage of this business trading electronically, which reached 55 percent electronic during the quarter. One of the key drivers of our continued electronic options success is our investment in enabling more complex Options spreads to trade on Globex. In 5 Q3, we saw a record 45 percent of all Options spreads trade electronically, versus just 10 percent in 2010. And volume in the world's largest major options contracts, our Eurodollar options traded on Globex, jumped by more than 60 percent to a record 200,000 contracts per day in Q3, and reached 21 percent electronic versus 14 percent a year ago. (Source: CME Group)
What's on Your Mind? Listener questions and comments
- Brokers, symbols, and how to trade futures and futures options
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Energy Calendar Spread Option (CSO) Breakdown
The Long & Short of Futures Options
09/30/15 • 36 min
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 ETFs and traditional futures options? Maybe in the energies or in the ags? Thanks for your great programs.
The Long and Short of Futures Options: A Deep Dive into Soybean Options
The Long & Short of Futures Options
05/31/16 • 59 min
Today Mark is joined by Nick Howard, Managing Principal of Bantix Technologies, Eric Norland, Senior Economist at CME Group, and John Nelson, President of the Applied Research Company.
They discuss:
- The different kind of soybean products
- The big move in beans and why that happened
- The swing from oversupplied to not
- Soybean hoarding in Argentina
- Are volatility and price correlated?
- What about China?
- The favorable conditions for a risk reversal
- What does the data show?
- The impact of el nino and la nina on soybean prices
- The phenomenon of el nino and la nina
- A well-timed report on the new research from CME
- How will the Fed impact gold?
- Gold volatility and its correlation to relative volatility
- And more
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Blu Putnam, CME Chief Economist
The Long & Short of Futures Options
12/30/13 • 34 min
Mark sits down with Blu Putnam, Managing Director and Chief Economist of CME Group to discuss gold, currencies, the Fed, oil, and high-frequency trading.
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The first episode of The Long & Short of Futures Options was released on Aug 15, 2011.
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