Our Webinars

Key takeaways:

Current Market Themes (macro fundamentals)

Key Correlations driving markets

Market Consensus Positioning

Key tradeable opportunities

Upcoming Risks

Key takeaways:

- LME introduction;

- Understanding LMEs market structure;

- Navigating liquidity points;

- Growth in ferrous;

- What's next for the LME.

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This event is intended only for Professional Clients and no other Person should act upon it.

Webinar's agenda:

• Basic of options related to short-dated options.
• Options on Futures at CME Group.
• American vs European Options.
• Short vs long dated options.
• Examples: precious metals, energy, equity indices.

Agenda:

• Economic release calendar
• CFTC Commitment of Traders Report
• Price charting function
• QuikStrike tools
• CVOL tool

Key takeaways:

1. Contract specifications: E-Minis

2. Spread Trading: Futures vs Options:

a) Energy

b) Metals

c) Equities

Key takeaways:

• Participants: the role of hedgers and speculators.
• Technology: An electronic marketplace.
• Risk: The function of the clearing house.
• Liquidity: What makes a market.
• The journey of a trade: From execution to settlement and a lot more.

Key takeaways:

1. An overview of macroeconomic factors driving the market

2. Understanding how macroeconomics affects the correlation between asset classes.

Key takeaways:

• Directional trades
• Volatility trades
• Hedging Adverse Price Risk
• CMED Demo
• CMEGroup.com Tools and Resources

Key takeaways:

• The “greeks”: delta, gamma, vega, theta

• Put/call parity

• Volatility skew

Key takeaways:

• Options versus futures

• Definitions of options terms

• Moneyness of an option position

• Exercise and assignment, margining

• Volatilities, defined

• Risk/reward structure

Key takeaways: 

• Will the Fed’s tightening cycle create an explosion of volatility in 2023?
• Could the Fed slash rates in 2023 and send gold & silver soaring?
• How China’s crosscurrents (slowing property sector versus easing COVID restrictions) could impact commodities? 
• Are vegetable oils leading indicators of crude oil prices?
• How concerned should we be about the inventories of crude oil and crude oil products?

Ket takeaways:

• Are U.S. equity markets overvalued? If so, by how much?

• What is the relationship between equity and bond markets?  How do they influence one another?

• Is the traditional 60/40 equity/bond portfolio dead?

• How could U.S. mid-term elections impact the U.S. equity markets?

• How could small caps (Russell 2000) and tech stocks (NASDAQ 100) perform relative to the S&P 500?

Key takeaways: 

• The evolution of production and inventories in the crude oil market including the U.S. Petroleum reserve.
• The relationship between crude oil and agricultural goods prices.
• The impact of highly varied natural gas prices - Lithium, cobalt, and storing energy from solar and wind. 
• China’s influence on the price of oil and other commodities.
• The relationship between oil and metals prices.