This week on This Week in Futures Options, Mark Longo welcomes first-time guest Jim Iurio, CEO of JI Financial Strategies, for a wide-ranging discussion covering the biggest movers and opportunities across the futures options landscape. Crude oil volatility has collapsed as geopolitical fears ease, gold traders are eyeing potential downside targets, the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 continue to show surprising strength, and SpaceX remains the talk of the trading world. Jim shares his technical outlook on energy, metals, equities and crypto while offering a variety of options strategies for traders looking to navigate today&#x27;s markets. In this episode: • Crude oil&#x27;s dramatic reversal and what comes next • Why Jim believes crude could ultimately trade much lower • Gold&#x27;s surprising weakness during geopolitical turmoil • Put fly opportunities in gold and silver • Nat gas setups and key technical levels • Nasdaq and Russell 2000 outlooks • Liquidity, momentum and the current equity rally • The SpaceX options phenomenon and IPO enthusiasm • Bitcoin, Ethereum and crypto market analysis • Movers &amp; Shakers across energy, metals and equity indexes

TWIFO 502: Crude Oil Carnage, Gold Trouble and the SpaceX Effect

This Week in Futures Options

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And now, get ready to break down the latest Futures Options trading activity. It's time for This Week in Futures Options. All right, everybody. That music means we are back. It is Thursday. It is time once again to explore what's going on in the world of Futures Options. Yes, it is time once again for Twyfo.

My name, of course, Mark Longo from the Options Insider Radio Network. You're home now for, oh, a few years, 19 plus of options podcast goodness. Make sure you're checking out the full network wherever you get your favorite podcast. If you do that, you can check out sister programs like the Futures Rundown. We just did yesterday a lot of fascinating stuff lighting up the Futures Market, of course, on Fed Day and a lot more to get to here on the sister program.

Twyfo, of course, if you want to go above and beyond, join us for pro Q&As, options, oddities, where we find a lot of great unusual activity and all sorts of fun. The optionsinsider.com slash pro is the place to go to learn more. As we learn who's joining us in the old CME Group hot seat this week, I'm pleased to welcome on a newcomer to the program and indeed to the network. He is Jim Urio, the managing director over there at TJM Institutional Services.

Jim, welcome to the Futures Rundown program. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. And Jim, as we like to do with all of our first timers here on the network, why don't you go ahead and give our audien...

TWIFO 502: Crude Oil Carnage, Gold Trouble and the SpaceX Effect

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