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VOLATILITY REVIEW Trade war premium came and went… and then came back again! SPIKES - 16.5, up 0.75 from last show VIX Cash - 16.25, up 0.75 from last week VVIX - 92, 3-points lower than last show VIX Options - ADV: 708k, Total 6.62m (4.97m Calls, 1.65m Puts) VXX - 28, unchanged from last show CRYSTAL BALL Next week: Mark L. - 14.75 Mark S. - 14.10 Matt - 13.25

Options news you can use for Friday, May 24, 2019.

TRADING BLOCK Lots of Tesla put love this week. Most active indices - VIX: 211k, SPY: 1.75M, SPX: 672k Most active equity options - TSLA, AAPL, BABA, GE, BAC, HAL, AMD, QCOM, AMZN, FB Earning: Tuesday - Home Depot, JCPenney, Kohl's, Nordstrom Wednesday - Target, Lowe's Thursday - Best Buy Friday - Foot Locker ODD BLOCK Call love in Golar LNG Limited (GLNG) Call love in Danbury Resources Inc (DNR) Long-term puts in Washington Prime Group Inc (WPG) MAIL BLOCK #QOTW: In honor of #GameOfThronesFinale we'll have a special edition of our #options #QuestionOfTheWeek. If you could have bought calls on one character to win the #IronThrone - who would it have been? Quite simply - who did you want to end up on the #IronThrone - Tyrion Lannister - Jon Snow - Daenerys Targaryen - Arya Stark Question from a Fidelity Customer - Can I trade options to play an interest rate cut/hike? Question from Grey - You want to sell those $AAPL $150 puts now? AROUND THE BLOCK Pinterest has first earnings today after bell since going public - $PINS 2 big reports after the bell today $NVDA & $AMAT

Topics this week include: Equities Crude Oil Ags/Corn Metals FUTURES OPTIONS FEEDBACK Question from Bilcan - Why no $BTC opts yet? Question from CL Dance - Why is S&P volatility the only one most people pay attention to? Question from Frank - What do you guys think of this article? Do you ever use the commodity volatility indices in your analysis? https://www.investing.com/analysis/oil--gold-vs-oil--gold-volatility-indices-200307186. As I've noted recently, the major price resistance and support levels are 80.00 and 60.00, respectively. Corresponding to those are the major ratio resistance and support levels of 3.00 and 2.00, respectively. In this regard, it will be important for the ratio to remain above 2.00 and the ratio 5 MA to remain above the 8 MA to confirm an upward bias on oil on this timeframe.

Today's guest is Michael Ourabah, the CEO of BSO. Mark and Michael discuss: - What is BSO? - How is the race to zero shaping up overseas? - How are the market data and connectivity wars shaping up in the crypto marketplace? - How do we solve the inherent latency issues plaguing crypto right now? - Can you build a one-stop shop for crypto connectivity? - Is there still a strong institutional appetite for crypto? - How is the emerging crypto scene in the Middle East? - And much more...

Unlocking Volatility Secrets Using Data Science Our guests today are: Jay Schuren, GM Time Series Data Scientist at Data Robot Jimmy Heinz, Equity Volatility Trader at the Gelber Group. Mark, Jay and Jimmy discuss: Why does a volatility trading group need a data scientist? How does data science improve volatility trading? Which product classes yield the greatest benefit from data science analysis? How do outlier volatility events like February 2018 impact the analysis? Is data science the future of volatility trading? And much more...

Options news you can use for Thursday, May 23, 2019.

LISTENER QUESTIONS Question from Chickenluvr - Do you know if there is anyway you can tell if positions are being opened or closed intra day? Live options open interest? Question from Meravol - What are your thoughts about selling strangles at the 1std dev levels of a particular stock? Sort of like a bollinger band strangle? Thoughts on this technique? Is it me or are there new techniques for selling strangles all the time that always tend to blow out? Aren't you better off selling IC or IB due to limited risk? Question from S Warz - Can you trade options through dark pools? Question from Mr Petty - What is the sweet spot when buying options when it comes to time decay. I don't want weeklies but I also don't want to spend a fortune for a two-year option? Comment from Tenasur - Ally is smart having a show on this network. It puts them ahead of a lot of brokers that are still figuring out their content strategy. Maybe one day Ally will pick up the rest of it and make it the Ally Options Insider Radio Network. That would be pretty sweet for ally clients to have access to this stuff 24/7. Although the rest of Mark's listeners might be a little angry.

Nick LaMaina - SVP, Product Management and Strategy Jeff Peters, Senior Product Manager What's new at TradeStation? An update on the new branding initiative? Mobile functionality Option Station Pro? How are your efforts progressing to target new basic retail clients? What's new for options traders at TradeStation? Is the App Store still active? What is the percentage of customers that use APIs? You did not have a great showing in our Options Broker Madness tournament this year. What can we do to improve your ranking in 2019? What brings you to OIC this year? Any announcements?

Henry Schwartz, Founder & President - Trade Alert Give us an update on the state of the industry. Any surprises this year? How many names comprise the top 50% of volume this year? Is there fragmentation across new exchanges? What's new at Trade Alert? New condition codes? Is this the death of passive?