Futures, Commodities, & Options

For traders with a neutral-to-slightly-bullish outlook on a stock, covered calls are a popular strategy. But when a stock's price is too high to buy 100 shares, a more affordable option is the call diagonal spread, also known as the "poor man's covered call." In this session, we’ll simplify this strategy, showing how to select candidates and choose the expiry, delta, and strike prices. We'll also use the thinkorswim platform to analyze risks, break-even points, and success probabilities. 

Election jitters? Discover the one trade that every investor should consider, designed to benefit regardless of who wins—whether it’s the Trump Trade or the Harris Trade.

Executive editor of Gold Newsletter Brien Lundin and editor of Gold Charts R Us Omar Ayales discuss the current "golden era" in precious metals and investment opportunities. Lundin highlights central bank buying, de-dollarization efforts, and potential U.S. investor participation as gold prices rise. He predicts silver outperforming gold and recommends junior mining stocks. Ayales focuses on the shift to an inflationary environment, global fragmentation, and increased gold holdings as a reserve asset. Both experts note the lack of U.S. investor participation as a bullish sign and provide price targets for precious metals. 

 Join Phil Flynn as he discusses why the commodity super cycle may only be in the first phase.   

With our current economic climate and with lessons learned from history, NOW is the perfect time to invest in gold at cost, plus other amazing opportunities.   

With 44 years of gold market experience, American Gold Exchange President Dana Samuelson has pretty much seen it all regarding gold, until now. With gold hitting new, record highs in April Dana will explain what new factors have driven gold to its recent peak, and why higher highs are still likely. The fundamentals driving the god price are entrenched and rock solid and now they are being turbo charged by recent, new external factors. Dana will down on both the old and the new gold price drivers in this mid-year gold market update.  

Gold is getting attention again as new highs are being achieved.  Silver has lagged, and silver investors feel left behind.  Yet, the market activity is typical during the final phase of a significant bull market.  The dynamics for silver have never been as strong as they are currently.  Once the market reestablishes that silver, like gold, has a safe haven store of value component, the silver market will accelerate past gold, and the returns will be greater in percentage terms. 

Join Lawrence G. McMillan where he will discuss the current state of his option-oriented indicators including seasonal patterns and what they are saying about the stock market. He will also discuss various historical patterns, including the following topics:  the performance of $SPX, what the option markets are saying, and much, much more. 

Stock markets are overvalued, and a recession is looming. Precious metals are breaking out. Silver’s uses in solar panels, EVs, and even AI applications make it the “new oil.” But its price has major catching up to do. Silver will be the next uranium, which doubled in six months causing uranium stocks to soar. Now is the time to get positioned in silver and silver stocks. 

Index options have grown in popularity among many retail investors who have discovered their unique characteristics. Join Moomoo Technologies VP of Strategy Justin Zacks as he explains how investors may be using index options in their trading strategies. He will discuss the differences in settlement, style, tax treatment, and underlying securities between index options and other types of options.