Bond Volatility Is Spiking. Here's How to Choose Between ZB and ZN Options Right Now.
Rising global volatility has driven bond prices down and yields up, prompting traders to weigh options on 10-year (ZN) versus 30-year (ZB) futures. The presenter explains using DV01 (dollar value of a 1 bp move) to scale relative sensitivity—30-year DV01 (~$132.68) is roughly 2.09 times the 10-year (~$64.36)—and compares that to market-implied volatilities (example: ZB 14.4% vs ZN 8.3%, a 1.73 ratio). A gap between the DV01 ratio and the IV ratio reveals relative richness: when the IV ratio is below the DV01 ratio, ZN looks relatively rich and may be a better candidate to sell premium, and vice versa. The technique helps traders choose which contract offers more premium to collect, though it assumes parallel yield moves and is not a trade recommendation.
SPX Looks Broken… That’s Why It May Bounce
Heather, a Simpler trading analyst, warned that the S&P 500 closed just below the daily L2 level on March 26, a move that occurs only about 7 % of the time, signaling an unusually aggressive down‑day. She highlighted that recent short‑term rebounds have...
Natural Gas Futures Rally as EIA Report Shows 54 Bcf Draw. 3/26/26
April natural‑gas futures extended a third straight rally, closing up about 1.32% despite thin trading. The move was modest, with the contract ranging from $2.918 to $3.025 per MMBtu. The Energy Information Administration reported a 54 billion‑cubic‑foot (Bcf) draw for the week,...
Copper Futures Reverse Gains Amid Geopolitical Tension. 3/26/26
Copper futures reversed the gains made on Tuesday, slipping back toward Tuesday’s close and trading near $5.45 per pound as of the session’s end. The drop follows a 0.33% gap‑down open and a low of $5.4450, representing a 2.09% intraday decline....
What's So Great About ATR
The video explains that the Average True Range (ATR) measures market volatility and indicates how active a market is. It positions ATR as a tool for spotting where large institutional traders are active. Viewers are invited to comment "ATR" to...
V. Anantha Nageswaran on Surveying the Growth and Financialization of the Indian Economy
V. Anantha Nageswaran joins the podcast to reassess India’s growth trajectory, focusing on the evolving role of industrial policy and the financialization of the economy. He contrasts his 2016 Carnegie paper, which warned against state‑led import substitution, with the latest...
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[LIVE] Pre-Market Prep – GAP DOWN – So Much for Negotiations...
Trade Brigade’s daily pre‑market show launches at 8:00 AM EST, delivering live technical analysis for futures and options traders. The program highlights market gaps, price action, and volatility cues before the opening bell. Viewers also receive links to educational courses, trading scripts,...
Demystifying Brent Crude Oil Futures
The video breaks down the mechanics of Brent crude oil futures, the benchmark most traders use outside the United States. While U.S. markets focus on WTI, Brent contracts are listed on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and are largely cash‑settled, with...
Russell 2000 Futures Outperform Peers Despite Rate Cut Delays. 3/25/26
The June Russell 2000 futures emerged as the day’s top performer, outpacing the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow futures despite a late‑session pullback. The contract opened a 28% gap above yesterday’s settlement and climbed to a 1.72% intraday high, the...
Two Big Trade Ideas From Phil Davis
In the latest interview, options strategist Phil Davis outlines two distinct trade ideas – a Nasdaq‑focused hedge using the SQQQ inverse ETF and a long‑oil play on Canadian energy producer Suncor (SU). The SQQQ hedge is built as a call spread:...
Options Corner: Analyzing AMZN Underwhelming Price Action to Start 2026
The video from Options Corner dissects Amazon's muted price action entering 2026, despite bullish analyst forecasts and recent AWS growth. Hosts note Amazon’s stock is up merely 2% year‑to‑date, a stark contrast to 120% gain over three years; technicals show a...
Wood Mackenzie Called $200 Oil. The Options Math Says Otherwise.
Wood Mackenzie recently warned that Brent crude could climb to $150 a barrel, with $200 not entirely out of reach. The video dissects this claim by examining the crude oil options market on the Tasty Trade platform, focusing on both...
Naked Put Gone Wrong? Proven Ways to Defend and Recover
The video tackles a core dilemma for option sellers: what to do when a naked put moves in‑the‑money. It stresses that such setbacks are inevitable under the probability‑based premium‑selling model and that success hinges on a disciplined, systematic response rather...
A Smarter Way to Play the Top
Traders often try to short the exact market top, only to get burned. The video proposes a simpler, probability‑based alternative: selling out‑of‑the‑money (OTM) call options to capture premium while maintaining a bearish bias without pinpoint timing. By selling OTM calls, the...
Live Cattle Futures Trade Mixed as Volatility Subsides. 3/24/26
U.S. livestock markets traded mixed on Tuesday as the earlier bout of volatility eased, leaving the most‑active June live‑cattle contract down five cents at 23,460 while the August contract gained 35 cents to 23,210. The lean‑hog June contract slipped 35 cents...
WTI Crude Oil Futures Rally as Geopolitical Tensions Offset Ceasefire Talk. 3/24/26
WTI crude oil futures rallied on March 24, 2026, clawing back roughly 5.9% of yesterday’s 10.3% plunge, as fresh geopolitical friction in the Middle East outweighed recent cease‑fire optimism. The contract rose from a gap‑open low of $88.50 to a session...
GLD Bullish Spread | The Setup Everyone's Missing
Steve Gans walks options traders through a bullish GLD setup, proposing a broken‑wing iron condor that leverages recent price stabilization around the $400 level. He begins by noting GLD’s apparent support near 400 and outlines a basic 404‑395 put spread,...
ETF Edge on Using Managed Futures to Navigate Volatility During the Iran War
ETF Edge hosted a timely discussion on managed futures ETFs as investors grapple with heightened volatility stemming from the Iran conflict and broader macro uncertainties. Andrew Beer of Dynamic Beta Investments explained that managed futures, run by commodity trading advisors,...
WTI Crude Oil Futures Drop 10% as Middle East Talks Continue. 3/23/26
WTI crude oil futures experienced a dramatic swing on March 23, 2026, opening above $100 a barrel, sliding below $85 after news of ongoing US‑Iran talks, and settling at $88.50 – a roughly 10% decline to start the week. The $17.30...
Low Risk SPX Day Trading Strategy + Create a Bot to Automate
Jack Sloum of Option Alpha introduces the "flatfly" strategy – a daily SPX iron butterfly opened at 10:00 a.m. with its center anchored to the prior day’s close and a $10-wide wing. The video walks viewers through the new platform feature...
March 24th, 2026 LIVE Stocks, Options & Futures Trading with Pros!(Market Open, Last Call & More)
tastylive, a financial media network, now offers live, hour‑long programming focused on stocks, options, and futures. The service features more than 120 original segments and 25 on‑air personalities delivering actionable market insights for both new and experienced traders. All content...
Gold Futures Bounced Off 4-Month Low as U.S. Dollar Softened. 3/23/26
Gold futures edged higher on Tuesday after hitting a four‑month intraday low, as the U.S. dollar softened following a brief easing of Middle East conflict rhetoric. The metal settled around $4,475, roughly 2% lower on the day but $350 above...
March 23rd, 2026 LIVE Stocks, Options & Futures Trading with Pros!(Market Open, Last Call & More)
The March 23 live broadcast on Tasty Live opened with the usual banter among hosts before diving into the day’s market outlook. Venetta introduced the agenda, noting a “magnificent Monday” and previewing segments on options, zero‑day‑to‑expiration (Zero DTE) strategies, and crypto insights,...
The War No One Can Price | The Weekly Wrap – 3/22/2026
The Weekly Wrap episode “The War No One Can Price” examines why financial markets frequently fail to price geopolitical conflicts until they materialize, using the Ukraine and Iran tensions as case studies. Host Jack Forehand and guests Jared Dillian, Brick...
Your Naked Put Is Losing Money. Here's Exactly What Liz and Jenny Do Next.
In the video Liz and Jenny walk through how to handle a losing naked put position, illustrating the mechanics of rolling the option and treating it as a synthetic covered call. They show a SoFi example where a 19‑strike put sold...
The Rolling Strategy: Reduce Risk Without Sacrificing Income
The video explains a "rolling" options strategy that lets traders close an existing position and simultaneously open a new one—often with a different strike, expiration, or both—to manage risk while preserving income. By shifting exposure forward, the approach smooths the...
Geopolitical Risk and the Death of Lone Wolf McQuade
The March 2026 episode reviews a market caught between rising geopolitical risk and a complacent Federal Reserve. With the VIX hovering near 26, the term structure mimics a late‑July profile despite an active Iran‑oil conflict. The Fed’s new outlook pushes...
NVDIA Chip Smuggling Ring Tanks SMCI
The Hot Options Report highlighted a dramatic sell‑off across the tech sector on March 20, with the most striking move coming from Super Micro Computer (SMCI). SMCI fell 33% after news of a $2.5 billion Nvidia chip‑smuggling investigation involving its...
The Probability Secret Most Traders Never Learn | Tom Preston
In this talk, Tom Preston reveals a probability secret most traders overlook: applying the central limit theorem by trading small, frequent positions. He explains that as the number of independent trades grows, the aggregate portfolio return converges toward a normal distribution,...
Live and Feeder Cattle Futures Rallied on Friday. 03/20/26
Live and feeder cattle futures rallied Friday, ending the week on a strong note. June live cattle and April feeder cattle contracts posted notable weekly gains, spurred by the USDA Cattle on Feed report showing placements at 104% of expectations....
LIVE: Stock Futures Rip Higher as Trump Calls Off Iran Strikes for Now
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States will postpone planned strikes on Iran's power plants after what he described as "very good and productive" talks with Tehran. The de‑escalation cue sent stock futures higher, with the S&P 500...
WTI Crude Oil Futures Reached a Four-Year High. 03/20/26
WTI crude oil futures surged to a four‑year high, reaching the top of a range not seen since July 2022. The rally was driven by persistent shipping disruptions and production uncertainties in the Middle East, especially around the Strait of...
Micron Earnings Crash and the Call Option Wipeout
The podcast dissected Micron Technology’s post‑earnings tumble, focusing on how the sharp price drop erased the value of a massive block of call options. After reporting results, Micron slid 3.75% to $44.43, wiping out roughly 1.15 million $500 call contracts that had...
Corn Futures Reached Highest Close Since June. 3/19/26
Corn futures closed at their highest level since June 6, marking a recovery after Monday’s decline and establishing a new recent‑high benchmark for the market. The rally arrived amid lingering worries about fertilizer costs and availability. Roughly 80‑85% of fertilizer contracts are...
June Live Cattle Futures Closed Sharply Lower on Weak Demand. 3/19/26
June live cattle futures closed sharply lower on March 19, wiping out most of the mid‑week rally and underscoring a shallow downtrend that has persisted since mid‑February. Analysts cited rising crude‑oil prices and a softening equity market as headwinds for domestic...
FDX Earnings Move a "Coin Flip:" Metrics & Options to Watch
FedEx (FDX) is set to report earnings after the market close, and analysts view the release as a barometer for global trade amid lingering Middle‑East tensions and higher energy prices. The stock has outperformed UPS this year, up roughly 20%...
Survival Tips for Retail Options Sellers to Manage Risk #barchart #stocks #options #optionstrading
The video tackles a common myth among retail traders: selling options is "safer" because it wins more often. It contrasts the fixed‑risk nature of buying calls or puts with the asymmetric, potentially unlimited downside of writing naked or even cash‑secured...
Soybean Futures Ended Mixed While Corn and Wheat Gained. 3/18/26
The grain market update for March 18, 2026 highlighted a mixed day for soybeans while corn and wheat futures posted gains. Soybean contracts traded within a narrow 17.25‑cent range, ending near the previous limit‑down level at 1,162 cents, with July contracts touching 1,177 cents....
Options-Traders Delight as VIX Pops, SPX Stuck: CFOF LIVE From Cboe
A live Cboe panel highlighted a sharp VIX surge while the S&P 500 index stayed flat, creating a rare sandbox for options traders. Experts from SpotGamma, Market Rebellion, Nations Indexes and Prosper Trading Academy dissected how volatility is routinely overpricing...
Stop Fighting Time Decay (Do This Instead) #options #trading #investing #barchart #stockmarket
The video contrasts two fundamental option‑trading approaches: speculative long options versus risk‑defined credit spreads. The host explains that while a long call or put offers unlimited upside, it also suffers from time decay and demands a sizable price move before...
Basic Delta Hedging Math
The video explains the mechanics of delta hedging using Nvidia as a case study, illustrating how market makers manage large option trades. When an investor purchases thousands of call options, the market maker becomes short the aggregate delta of those...
Intraday Short Straddle Strategy Backtest in Python | Bank Nifty Options Strategy
The video walks through a Python back‑test of an intraday short straddle on Bank Nifty options, illustrating how to build, execute, and evaluate the trade from data ingestion to equity‑curve visualization. The author explains that selling at‑the‑money calls and puts creates a...
0 DTE Options Trading What Is It
The video explains zero‑days‑to‑expiration (zero‑DTE) options, which now account for the majority of S&P options trading—projected at 59 % of volume by 2025—and describes how daily expirations evolved from monthly contracts to today’s every‑day schedule. Gans details the mechanics: a net credit...
Gold Futures Closed Lower Ahead of the FOMC Meeting. 3/16/26
Gold futures slipped modestly on March 15, closing at $5,150, about $5 lower than the previous session. The metal briefly breached the psychological $5,000 barrier before rallying back above it, reflecting a tighter trading range as investors await the Federal...
Live Cattle and Lean Hogs Futures Moved Higher. 3/16/26
The video reports a broad rally in U.S. livestock futures on March 16, 2026, with live cattle and lean hog contracts posting notable gains. Live cattle April futures jumped $35 to $233.95, while June contracts edged higher, reflecting sustained consumer...
Nifty Futures Remained Flat During The Session, Indicating A Range-Bound Market | Business News
Nifty futures traded flat and largely range-bound, with only modest intra-day short-covering that briefly pushed the index lower. F&O flows show concentrated put-writing around 22,800–23,200 ahead of the weekly expiry, while call writers gained activity as the index dipped into...
VXX Has 92% Correlation to VIX. So Why Does It Keep Losing Money?
The Trading Evolution episode breaks down why the VXX exchange‑traded note, despite a 92% correlation with the spot VIX, consistently loses value. VXX’s design blends front‑month and back‑month VIX futures and rebalances daily, generating a 4.5% annualized roll cost that...
The Options Course Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Take
Tastylive launched a beginner‑focused options course that walks traders through opening and closing multi‑leg strategies, such as a Caterpillar strangle, a Netflix iron condor, and a PayPal roll, using the tastytrade platform. The curriculum explains the distinction between buying to...
Prediction Markets Surge as NCAA Tournament Tips Off Soon
Prediction markets are rapidly transitioning from niche hobby to a mainstream asset class, with trading volumes for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament soaring 3,000% year‑over‑year. Unlike traditional sportsbooks, these federally regulated exchanges operate like financial markets, offering peer‑to‑peer trading and...
The Narrow Wings Secret: Rolling 0DTEs Like a Pro
Tastylive’s Market Measures segment analyzed three years of SPX zero‑day‑to‑expiration (0DTE) rolls, comparing iron flies, iron condors, and vertical spreads. The study found that rolling into narrower‑wing positions consistently improved win rates, especially when the second trade was directional rather...