This episode features special guest Erik Norland, Executive Director and Senior Economist of CME Group Topics this week include: Gold Crude Oil Winners: Nat Gas, WTI Losers: Lean Hogs, Iron Ore Futures Options Feedback: Listeners weigh in Options Question of the Week: First #Harvey, then #Irma, now #Jose & more. We prep houses/cars/family for #disasters. How do you prep your portfolio? Get Long $VIX/$VXX/$UVXY Go To Cash/T-bills Buy Index/Stock Puts "Risk Assets" - Gold, etc. Listener Questions: Question from Uriah - I think CME should do an updated version of the collar study but on futures options? There are a lot of markets on the CME platform that seem well suited to collar trading. Question from Tomseh - Can we get a quicktrike skew index that we can track and trade?