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HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CRUDE OIL Down 10% on the week coming into Thursday. That followed a session in which the futures closed at $51.09 a barrel, the lowest level since Jan. 14. Futures fell as much as 5.8% Wednesday to seven-month lows after American crude stockpiles posted a surprise increase. The loss sent the resource tumbling into bear market territory. Having extra supply dilutes prices, while fears of a global recession added to worries that demand may slow. EIA Lowers World Oil Demand Forecast Again Oil Regains Ground as Saudis Discuss Crude-Market Intervention METALS - GOLD Good week - Up 5.21% coming into Thursday. Gold's ride hinges on rates. For gold prices to head for $1,600 or higher, it will take a few more rate cuts from the Fed. Global tensions still matter for gold, but with the trade war in play, global tensions are now correlated with economic expectations and, thus, rates. METALS - SILVER Silver is having another rock'em sock'em week. Silver prices book largest daily rise in 3 years on Wednesday. EQUITIES VIX 17.65 - UNCHANGED FROM LAST SHOW VVIX: 100 - DOWN 6 FROM LAST SHOW RVX: 20.6 - UP 1 POINT FROM LAST WEEK VIX/RVX SPREAD - 3 - WIDER BY 1 POINT FROM LAST WEEK Earnings season driving more volume in micro e-mini futures. Micro E-mini Equity futures traded 5 consecutive days over 1M contracts, reaching a record high of 1.4M contracts on August 8. Liquidity continues to build as market participants turn to Micro E-Mini futures for greater precision and flexibility in managing risk. Notable options trading in Russell indexes. FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK QUESTION FROM STI6RY: Big move in iron ore this week off the trade war. Much options action out there? QUESTION FROM JACK: What about a weekly skew report on twifo? Biggest changers from week to week? QUESTION FROM NMEDIA: Much on with beans this week QUESTION FROM LILBIGGS: What's your most memorable thing you've learned from doing this show? QUESTION FROM ELLES: Any more firmness to the wti skew this week?

OB 828: Clam Pirates, Hobbits and Funky VIX Curves HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: ANDREW GIOVINAZZI, OPTION PIT CO-HOST: MIKE TOSAW, ST. CHARLES WEALTH MANAGEMENT FIDELITY HOT SEAT: COLIN SONGER, FIDELITY ACTIVE TRADER STRATEGY DESK THE TRADING BLOCK WHAT A WILD WEEK - WORST SELLOFF OF THE YEAR FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER SELLOFF THAT ULTIMATELY ENDED UNCHD. NOW WE'RE IN RALLY MODE VIX 17.60 - DOWN 4 FROM LAST SHOW - VVIX: 99.88- DOWN 11 FROM LAST SHOW VXX: 26.50 - DOWN 1 POINT FROM LAST SHOW MARK/ANDREW REVIEW? MIKE REVIEW? WHAT ARE FIDELITY'S CUSTOMERS TRADING TODAY - ROKU, AMZN, AMD, KHC and more. TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE EQUITY OPTIONS INDEX OPTION VOLUME BREAKDOWN AND MORE… THE ODD BLOCK KHC FUNKY ITM CALLS KR LINE IN THE SAND PUT REVIEW LBTYK CALL LOVE REVIEW MAIL BLOCK QUESTION FROM Steven Tresser: Mark, I love the podcasts and have learned a ton from you guys. I have two questions about protecting profits with puts: 1. I've heard you mention around 2% as the appropriate amount of premium to pay to protect profits in a stock. Is this 2% of the overall position, or 2% of the profits? 2. How would this apply to profits in a long call. Say I am up $10,000 in a long call position and think it still has some upward run. How do I figure out how many ATM or slightly OTM puts I need to protect some percentage (say 50-100%) of that profit? Thank you and keep up the good work! Great show! AROUND THE BLOCK What is on our radar for the rest of the week? - Continued surge of gold and silver, ppi, yield curve, will vix futures work out of backwardation, spx wild ride

OPR 272: HITCHING A BEARISH RIDE ON UBER On this episode, we will expand our playbook with a new strategy - selling a call spread to pay for an OTM put in UBER. You can call it a bearish risk reversal with a call kicker to protect against extreme upside moves. You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition. Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send it to Theoptionsguy@invest.ally.com, or to questions@theoptionsinsider.com.

The Crypto Rundown 26: The Gamification of Crypto Trading HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP THE CRYPTO HOTSEAT GUEST: ROB LEVY, Co-Founder Gordian Block Capital, LLC | Co-Founder (HERO) .Hxro Games, Inc. BACKGROUND? What IS HXRO? WHY A GAMING TOKEN? IS THIS AVAILABLE ON MAJOR PLATFORMS LIKE COINBASE, KRAKEN, ETC? WHAT SORT OF VOLUME ARE YOU SEEING? BACK IN LATE JUNE WE SAW HXRO ALMOST DOUBLE TO NEARLY $.10 - WHAT HAPPENED? DO YOU THINK THE U.S. IS BEING LEFT BEHIND ON THE CRYPTO REGULATORY FRONT? COLLISION OF TRADING WORLD WITH THE CRYPTO WORLD BITCOIN BREAKDOWN SEGMENT CRYPTO FLIGHT TO CRYPTO QUALITY? - Investing.com - Cryptocurrencies overall traded higher on Friday, with bitcoin leading gains as speculation mounted on whether it could be used as a hedge against the threat of currency wars. BTC UP OVER $2300 FROM LAST SHOW BTC RALLY BEGAN BEFORE THE FED AND THE TARIFFS - HAS BEEN ON A NONSTOP RALLY SINCE LAST SHOW WAS BACK OVER $10K BY WEDS BROKE $11K YESTERDAY RALLIED NEARLY $800 IN LAST 24 HOURS - There was a "conspiracy theory" about someone in China moving yuan into the digital currency in order to avoid a further devaluation by the Chinese government. BTC VOLATILITY - 30 DAY REALIZED: DOWN NEARLY 30 TO 95% FROM 122% BTC OPTIONS VOLUME ON DERIBIT: PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY BELOW $30M BTC CALL/PUT RATIO: PEAKED AT 73.4% ON 6/17, BACK UP TO 54.4% FROM 36.6% BTC OPEN INTEREST: OI UP TO $533M FROM $394M CME BTC FUTURES: SURPRISINGLY LIGHT VOLUME ON A CRAZY DAY TODAY THE ALTCOIN UNIVERSE SEGMENT TOP 10 COINS BY MARKET CAP? ETH: UP NEARLY $25 FROM LAST SHOW XRP - UP NEARLY $.02 FROM LAST WEEK LTC - UP NEARLY $9 FROM LAST WEEK AS WE HIT THE HALVING MARK LTC HALVING DOMINATING THE ALTCOIN SPACE THIS WEEK BITCOIN CASH - UP $45 FROM LAST WEEK

Option Block 827: China Strikes Back HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: MARK SEBASTIAN, OPTION PIT CO-HOST: MIKE TOSAW, ST. CHARLES WEALTH MANAGEMENT FIDELITY HOT SEAT: TREY JARRELL, FIDELITY ACTIVE TRADER STRATEGY DESK THE TRADING BLOCK CHINA STRIKES BACK IN TRADE WAR - CHINESE YUAN FALLS BELOW 7 VS. USD -WIDELY SEEN AS THE FLOOR FOR THE CURRENCY AND A HEDGE FOR MANY TRADERS HASN'T TRADED LOWER THAN 7 SINCE 2008 ALSO TOLD ALL STATE-OWNED COMPANIES TO HALT U.S. AG IMPORTS VIX BREAKS 20 HANDLE! VIX 21.60 - UP 7.70 FROM LAST SHOW - VIX: 111 - UP 20 FROM LAST SHOW VXX: 27.50 - UP NEARLY 5 POINTS FROM LAST SHOW MARK/ANDREW REVIEW? MIKE REVIEW? WHAT ARE FIDELITY'S CUSTOMERS TRADING TODAY? TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE EQUITY OPTIONS INDEX OPTION VOLUME BREAKDOWN AND MORE… OCC July Cleared Volume Up 7.9 Percent Highest Total Volume Ever for July Index Options Up 14.1 Percent THE ODD BLOCK PHM CALL LOVE SKX EARNINGS PUT PLAY AAP CALL LOVE MAIL BLOCK QUESTIONS FROM FIDELITY CUSTOMERS? - Now that the market is ~5% off it's highs, how can i cheaply hedge my portfolio and make money on the downside? How do I make the decision on when to get out of bullish options positions? COMMENT FROM Scott Somer @ScottnearSMF ON 8/5/19: Be aware that if $SPX touches 2726.80 BEFORE 2:25PM CDT Today (August 5th) there will be a 15 minute marketwide trading halt. #MarketAwareness #NYSERule80B AROUND THE BLOCK What is on our radar for the rest of the week?

Host: Mark Longo, The Options Insider Media Group Co-Host: Mark Sebastian, Option Pit Miax Hot Seat Guest: Russell Rhoads, Tabb Group VOLATILITY REVIEW Update on the latest trades, trends and developments in the world of volatility including: Rally ho on the back of strong earnings VIX cash, Spikes,VIX Futures and VVIX overview. VIX options breakdown - crazy volume week Spikes options breakdown - OI pretty much unchanged from last week VXX options breakdown Earnings volatility breakdown for BYND, AAPL and more... VOLATILITY VOICEMAIL QUESTION FROM TINKER: Do you think there will ever be another inverse volatility product? THE CRYSTAL BALL Where will VIX/SPIKES be next week? MARK: 15.25 Andrew/meatball: 17.85 RUSSELL: 18.75

HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: SEAN SMITH, FTSE RUSSELL EQUITIES VIX 17.65 (13.90) - UP NEARLY 4.5 FROM LAST SHOW - HIT A HIGH OF 15.44 EARLIER THIS WEEK VVIX: 106 (91.5) - UP 21 FROM LAST SHOW RVX: 19.65 (17.15) - 15.80 - UP 3.85 VIX/RVX SPREAD - 2 (3.25) - TIGHTER BY .75 (wider by half a point from last week) Earnings season driving more volume in micro e-mini futures. Micro E-mini Equity futures traded a record high of 919.6K contracts ($13.5B notional) on July 31 as market participants looked to efficiently manage risk amid the FOMC rate cut announcement. Russell US Equity Indices Reconstitution Results The Reconstitution event itself culminated in one of the highest trading volume days in US equity shares in the last year. The Nasdaq Closing Cross, for instance, witnessed a record 1.279 billion shares, worth $42.59 billion, executed within 1.14 seconds. Russell 3000® market capitalization hit an all-time high of $31.7 trillion on Reconstitution day, up 3% from a year earlier. Large caps led the charge. The Russell 1000® gained 6.1% from last year's rebalance through May 10, during which time the Russell 2000® posted a 5.5% decline. At Reconstitution, Russell 1000® market cap was $29.3 trillion versus $28.2 trillion a year earlier. The technology sector emerged as the main driver of these gains, rallying nearly 40% since last year, abetted by big contributions from the consumer staples and healthcare sectors. The largest five companies in the Russell 3000® universe stood unchanged from 2018's Reconstitution, but their rank order is rearranged. Visa, at ninth place with $351.2 billion market cap, is the only new Top 10 entrant in this year's Reconstitution, superseding Bank of America. Why Reconstitution matters METALS - SILVER Silver options continue to grow in volume. July has seen two of the top ten all-time highest trading days, including over 33K contracts traded on July 19. FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK QUESTION FROM DORN2: Any updates on premium harvesting strats in the russell 2000 right now? QUESTION FROM NLENT: Why aren't there options on the Russell 3000? COMMENT FROM FENS: I'm with you guys that join market functionality is really kind of scary. What happened to price discovery? QUESTION FROM JACK TRENT: Any interesting options action in hogs with the big down move this week? QUESTION FROM CLAMAGNE: Thank you for talking futures options every week. I wish more people followed your lead. I have a question about the volatility skew of crude oil. I heard your recent episodes where you mentioned there wasn't much interest in an upside movement. Why do you think wti call skew has remained relatively week despite the big move down in crude oil futures?

HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: MARK SEBASTIAN, OPTION PIT CO-HOST: MIKE TOSAW, ST. CHARLES WEALTH MANAGEMENT FIDELITY HOT SEAT: BRIAN ISABELLE, FIDELITY ACTIVE TRADER STRATEGY DESK THE TRADING BLOCK FIRST RATE CUT IN 10+ YEARS - SINCE THE DARK DAYS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. MARKET WANTED 50 BASIS POINTS YESTERDAY - 1% SELLOFFS ACROSS THE BOARD. VIX 13.90 - UP 1.35 FROM LAST SHOW - HIT A HIGH OF 15.44 SINCE LAST SHOW VVIX: 91.5 - UP 6.5 FROM LAST SHOW VXX: 22.75 - UP 1.25 POINTS FROM LAST SHOW - HIT A HIGH OF 23.64 THIS WEEK MARK/ANDREW REVIEW? MIKE REVIEW? WHAT ARE FIDELITY'S CUSTOMERS TRADING TODAY? TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE EQUITY OPTIONS INDEX OPTION VOLUME BREAKDOWN AND MORE… OPTION PIT STOCK OF THE DAY LOOKING AT APPLE AFTER EARNINGS THIS WEEK. THE ODD BLOCK GO PRO CALL LOVE TME PUT LOVE PAAS AGGRESSIVE CALL BUYING MAIL BLOCK Question from Eddie Matheney: Is selling options for a credit (bull put) more profitable than buying options and paying a debit (bull call)? Thanks. AROUND THE BLOCK What is on our radar for the rest of the week? Looking for the employment situation numbers tomorrow along with consumer sentiment and factory orders.

In this edition of the Coffee With Cott podcast series, exchange-traded fund industry veterans Eric Balchunas and Dave Nadig join our head barista, Eric Cott, to discuss the always-changing flavors of ETFs and how these investment vehicles can be used with a variety of option strategies. Listen in to find out more about what changes may be on the horizon in the ETF space - and to learn whether there could be new and creative opportunities for financial advisors to explore.

OPR 271: Your Q's on SPX FLIES, AMZN Ratios, Put Sweet Spots and More It's time for Mark and Brian to answer your burning questions about: SPX Butterflies AMZN Ratio Spreads What is the Sweet Spot When Buying Puts? And Much More... You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is available on www.OptionsPlaybook.com as well as in the Amazon Kindle store. Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send it to Theoptionsguy@invest.ally.com, or to questions@theoptionsinsider.com.