Commodity Option Trading

I have spent the last 6 years working on a fundamental commodity trading desk. Came up on the physical side before switching over to a more analytics/research focused role to support the prop traders. Eventually started trading prop on my own and in a couple weeks I am starting at a pod that does the same but focuses on options. I am taking a junior PM type role and have traded options in the past but want to understand them at an expert level. I have read "Option Vol and Pricing" by Natenberg, thumbed through "Options, Futures and Other Derivs" by Hull, built black scholes with all the greeks and played around with how the greeks changes as other params change, and built simulations to be able to model things like vol of vol, etc.

What other resources are out there to understand options trading better so I can feel more confident when I step on the desk?

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