The Long and Short of Futures Options: Equity and Index Options Updates
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.
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.
Previous Episode
The Long and Short of Futures Options: All about the Ags
The Long and Short of Futures Options 16: All about the Ags
In this episode, Mark is joined by Tim Andriesen, Managing Director of Agriculture and Alternative Investment Products at CME.
What to Know: 2013: a year in review, CME ags complex in 2013. Shorter-dated alternatives for producers. The use case for weekly options.
What’s New: Intra-crop spread options, and the seasonality of the crop contracts. Kansas City wheat update. Request for cross functionality.
What to Watch: The recent push for crop/ag insurance.
What’s on Your Mind:
- Trading hours for CME group ags
- Long-dated contracts
- The relationship between ETF products and the futures/options contracts on the ags
Next Episode
The Long and Short of Futures Options: Deliverable Interest Rate Swap Futures
What to Know: Deliverable Interest Rate Swap Futures. What are they? The distinction between swaps and swap futures. What are the advantages of swap futures over swaps? Why they're being embraced now. Who is the end user for DSFs?
What to Watch: Ways to create the most margin and capital efficient platforms, including DSFs, and cross-margining.
What's on Your Mind? Listener questions and comments
- What is a SEF?
- How is the volume on CME's SEF?
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