Winning Oil, Natural Gas and Gold Straddles for the Week

Today we start a new month of options, and with that, come the best option trading opportunities.

Oil and Natural Gas

Oil and Natural Gas are prime candidates for straddles and strangles.

UCO is at 12.50, right in the middle of strikes. UNG is extremely volatile and it is too expensive. Here are attractive strangles ideas for this week, showing the maximum moves required. because it is so early in the options month, the actual moves required will be much lower.




Gold:

GLD offers the lowest required maximum move and strangles are very, very attractive. here are 91-90 and 92-88:




Computed with the StraddlesCalc too.