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VOLATILITY REVIEW Trade war premium back and forth. SPIKES - 15.65, down 0.35 from last show VIX Cash - 15.65, down 0.35 from last week VVIX - 84.5, unchanged from last show VIX Options - ADV: 482k, Total 8.04m (6.01m Calls, 2.03m Puts) VXX - 27.67, slightly lower than last show Earnings: Tuesday - Dave & Busters Wednesday - Lululemon Thursday - Broadcom VOLATILITY VOICEMAIL Question from Elliot - Looks like BTC is getting very volatile again. What are you seeing out there right now?\ Question from GLN09 - Is there a bitcoin vix? Question from Waterson - Can you explain more about the price dragging method in SPIKES. How exactly does that prevent what happened to the VIX from happening in spikes? Great show guys. Comment from Pyon - ASo the judge ruled that CBOE didn't manipulate their product but they created a product that was susceptible to manipulation. Do you think this is the end of the lawsuits? In some way isn't that outcome even worse since they never fixed this thing until the lawyers came knocking? Just look at all the steps that SPIKES takes to avoid these same types of problems. Is it out of the question to expect CBOE to have taken similar steps or were they too afraid of hurting their golden goose product? CRYSTAL BALL

Options news you can use for Friday, June 14, 2019.

TRADING BLOCK VIX - 15.80, Still locked near the 16 handle Most active indices - VIX - 240k, SPY - 804k, SPX - 333K, Most active equity options: DIS, AAPL, AMD, TSLA, FB, LULU, GE, NFLX, AMZN, BABA SPY goes ex-div on June 21 Earnings: Tuesday - Dave & Busters Wednesday - Lululemon Thursday - Broadcom ODD BLOCK Call love in Tellurian Inc (TELL) Call love in EQT Corporation (EQT) MAIL BLOCK #Options #QuestionoftheWeek - #Bitcoin $BTC is hovering around $8500 right now. If you had to make a 1-month #options trade expiring 6/31 - would you rather... - Buy $9000 Call - Buy $8000 Put - Sell $8000 Put - Other - reply/dm w/strat The hilarious story of /u/1R0NYMAN and Robin Hood. SirSoliloquy - What's hilarious is that, with the way robinhood is set up, /u/1R0NYMAN was somehow able to cash out $10,000 of robinhood's money before everything disappeared. So robinhood lost hundreds of thousands, but /u/1RONYMAN gained thousands TheRealOneTwo - Basically Robin hood screwed up. They were giving people leverage without margin. Basically saying you are good for $200k in trades though you only had $1k in the account. No agreement for a loan (margin). Trader was shortboxing and lost. The actual risk to him was nothing since he did not agree to a loan (will be determined by the SEC). Robin hood is on the hook for his losses. RH has since blocked shortboxing. AROUND THE BLOCK This Week in the Market: Jun 13 - Jobless Claims, Import and Export Prices Jun 14 - Retail Sales, Consumer Sentiment

Topics this week include: Equities Metals/Gold Crude Oil Ags/Corn FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Question from SHUTDL - Nick still scalping his gold gamma? Question from Tom D. - What is the biggest stumbling block for an equity option guy looking to dip his toes into the massive futures options pool? I'll probably start with E-mini options. Question from Trilo47W - I have to admit that your show is luring me to the "dark side" of futures options. I'm thinking about diving into corn. Good choice? Question from Elle SW - What is the date for the Russell 2000 reconstitution to take effect? Question from AllenTown - If you had to bet on the next big crypto derivatives what would it be?

On this episode, we first looked at last week's trade in Apple. Then he discussed doing a long straddle in Boeing. 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 them to Brian at theoptionsguy@invest.ally.com, or to the Options Insider at questions@theoptionsinsider.com.

Options news you can use for Thursday, June 13, 2019.

Options news you can use for Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Options news you can use for Tuesday, June 11, 2019.

CRYPTO HOT SEAT Guest: Jason Urban - CEO, Drawbridge Lending BITCOIN BREAKDOWN BTC down over $500 from last show, at $8499. Bitcoin trade volume on Coinbase hits a 14-nonth high in May 30-day BTC realized volatility up to 95, from 89. What does Cboe's looming crypto futures exit mean for the bitcoin price? THE ALTCOIN UNIVERSE Top 10 coins by market cap: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Bitcoin SV, Stellar, TRON, Cardano CRYPTO QUESTIONS #Options #QuestionoftheWeek - #Bitcoin $BTC is hovering around $8500 right now. If you had to make a 1-month #options trade expiring 6/31 - would you rather… 29% - Buy $9000 Call 35% - Buy $8000 Put 31% - Sell $8000 Put 5% - Other, reply/dm w/strat Question from YNGBLD - Why are the margin rates for BTC futures so extreme? Question from LNT - Does the recent explosion of $BTC futures volume on CME plus the data from bitwise make you reconsider the impact of the futures market? Is it more relevant than anyone thought? Does this mean we might see an ETF sometime soon?

TRADING BLOCK VIX : 16.2 BYND has better than expected quarterly earnings Most active indices: VIX - 312k, SPY - 1.35M, SPX - 547k Most active equity options: AMD, AAPL, TSLA, FB, BABA, AMZN, MSFT, BAC, BYND, NFLX Earnings: Tuesday - Dave & Busters Wednesday - Lululemon Thursday - Broadcom ODD BLOCK Calls trade in QuinStreet Inc (QNST) OTM puts in Coupa Software Inc (COUP) Calls trade in Shutterfly, Inc (SFLY) STRATEGY BLOCK Colin Songer from Fidelity discusses selling box spreads. AROUND THE BLOCK This Week in the Market: Jun 10 - JOLTS Jun 11 - PPI Jun 12 - CPI, Treasury Budget Jun 13 - Jobless Claims, Import and Export Prices Jun 14 - Retail Sales, Consumer Sentiment