December Gold, September’s First Notice/Last Trading Day, Levels, Reports; Your 4 Important Need-To-Knows for Trading Futures on September 3rd, 2025

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Welcome to the first day of the rest of the trading year.

by Senior Broker, John Thorpe 

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Below are the contracts which are entering First Notice or Last Trading Day for September.

Be advised, the contracts below are deliverable. It is requested that all LONG positions be exited two days prior to First Notice and ALL positions be exited the day prior to Last Trading Day.

Today, Stock indices corrected lower S&P at 6412.00 area as I write yet still trading above the 50-day SMA: my read is at 6357.75 down 60 points. The Dow down +/- 300 and the Nasdaq down +/- 220.00

if you are thinking about how to protect or better yet, hedge your exposure, you may want to read about some option basics that apply to all markets.

By the way Gold broke out of its summer range and is trading in the 3580.00 oz area basis the December contract. (breakout was above 3550.00)

The gold example below should provide the neophyte with the basics:

A reprint follows:

What goes up must come down?

Does Newtons law of Gravity capsulized by the quote” what goes up, must come down” apply metaphorically to prices on assets? this quote reminds us of the inherent predictability and order found in nature by earths gravitational pull.

The question becomes, what pulls asset prices down? and how does the investor protect or benefit from forces pulling prices down?

Since the forces pushing prices of assets lower are much harder to determine than a simple law like gravitational pull without doubt make what goes up must come down a truest statement, that doesn’t mean we can’t protect our investments or even benefit from sell-offs of commodities, equities and other assets we hold.

Gold will be a good example to explain 2 common risk management strategies since this asset has been range bound for some time now, having become comfortable in a relatively narrow price range since Memorial Day after a runup to start the year.

One report indicates that gold opened at $2,633 per ounce on January 2, 2025, and as of August 15, 2025, it was trading around $3,383 per ounce, marking a 24.9% increase,

Protecting your long gold futures contracts, GLD ETF or your personal gold stash you can use futures options as an insurance policy to cover your downside risk.

   You believe the price of gold is ready to fall on a breakout to the downside. You can buy Comex Gold Puts. How Gold Puts Work:

Buying a Put

  • You buy a gold put option when you expect gold prices to fall.
  • The put gains value as gold declines.
  • If gold drops below the strike price, you can:
    1. Sell the put at a profit, or
    2. Exercise it to take a short position in gold futures at the strike price.

Gold option premiums consist of intrinsic value and time value:

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  • Intrinsic Value = Max(Strike − Futures Price, 0)
  • Time Value = Based on volatility, time to expiration, and interest rates

For example:
If gold = $3380.00 and your put strike = $3400.00:

  • Intrinsic = $20
  • If option trades at $28 → Time Value = $8

A bear put spread is an options strategy used when you expect the price of gold to decline moderately.

You buy a put option (higher strike) and sell a put option (lower strike) with the same expiration date.

  • The long put gives you downside profit potential.
  • The short put helps reduce the cost of the trade.
  • This caps both your risk and your max profit.

Please click here to access the: Comex Gold Bear Put Spread Cheat Sheet., we will be happy to walk you through and answer any questions, just give us a call.

 Tomorrow:  

Econ Data: JOLTS, Beige Book, (EIA Crude Stocks moved due to L-Day Weekend), 17-week Bill auction

FED: 8:00 am, Musalem. 12:30 pm Kashkari (non vtg mbr)

Earnings:  SalesForce, Hewlett-Packard, DollarTree

Tariff news:   Anything goes!

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December Gold

December gold satisfied its second upside PriceCount objective and has been consolidating with a sideways trade since. At this point, IF the chart can resume its rally with new sustained highs, the third count would project a possible run to the 4,071 area.

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Daily Levels for Sept. 3rd, 2025

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