Options Insider Radio Interviews

Today, Mark is joined by Brian Liston, co-founder of the Seed Commodity eXchange (CX) They discuss: What is Seed CX? The perils of opening a new derivatives exchange How are they going to make a trade-able/list-able hemp product? Understanding the hemp industry and translating that into commodities Filling the gap left by corn and soy Finding funding in Chicago And more...

Today, Mark is joined by Tony Saliba, Managing Director of Saliba Venture Management. They discuss: Bringing options trading expertise to the Chinese market Tony's newest book: Managing Expectations: Driving Profitable Option Trading Outcomes through Knowledge, Discipline, and Risk Management Are the practicalities of options trading being lost? Diving in the history of options trading with a focus on a Chinese audience Employing the "staying alive" principle The slow roll-out of options trading in China Are covered calls unnecessarily favored? Educating the regulators The tsunami of interest in options from China

In this episode, Mark is Joined by Joe Halpern, CEO of Exceed Investments. They discuss: What is Exceed Investments? Where does Exceed focus its attention? The different types of funds Exceed offers Working with advisors to use options The use of options in IRAs What is coming up from Exceed?

In this episode, Mark is joined by Kevin Ott, the Co-President of Lightspeed. They discuss: What is Lightspeed? Who is the target audience? What differentiates Lightspeed from their competitors? Lightspeed mobile After-hours trading How many exchanges is too many exchanges? The crowding of the retail brokerage space Wooing desirable clients What's coming up from Lightspeed?

In this episode, Mark is joined by Eric Cott, Director of Advisor Education at the Options Industry Council. They discuss: The OIC Financial Advisor Forum Why the focus on ETFs? Giving advisors actionable information Using options without even knowing it Regulation of using options in IRAs The latest Harris Poll study, spoored by the OIC Options for Advisors resources on the OIC website Perceptions of options by advisors The rise of the robo advisor Talking to clients in a language they understand What's coming from the OIC?

Coming to you live from the 2016 OIC Conference, Mark is joined by Catherine Clay, Vice President of Business Development for CBOE LiveVol. They discuss: Becoming part of the CBOE family What is LiveVol? What is the Data Shop? What was the driver to create the Data Shop? Where is the demand for data going forward? What does LiveVol have to offer for surveillance?

Coming to you live from the 2016 OIC Conference, Mark is catching up with all the usual suspects to bring you the latest options news. In this episode, he is joined by Joe Corso, Senior VP of Brokerage at Options House. They discuss: What are the new developments at Options House? What is going on with the Otions House mobile app? Moblie charting Idea generation What about futures and futures options? New entries into the options brokerage space After hours trading: pros and cons How many exchanges are too many exchanges?

In this episode, Mark is joined by Bill Looney, Head of CBOE New York. They discuss: Recent developments happening at CBOE Options volume Navigating the waters of listing new products, including MSCI and FTSE The Options Institute expansion into Asia Expanded hours for SPX and VIX options The plight of liquidity providers Exchanges: how many are too many? Price improvement auctions Monday expirations

In this episode, Mark is joined by David Beth, President and COO of WallachBeth. They discuss: The genesis of WallachBeth What is happening in the ETF space? Levered versus regular ETFs The continued expansion of the exchange space and the resulting impact on WallachBeth clients Price improvement auctions The adoption (or lack thereof) of options in the advisor space

In this episode, Mark is joined by JJ Kinahan, Managing Director at TD Ameritrade. They discuss: What's new at TD from an options perspective? The mobile experience What's happening in futures options? The importance of understanding risk Developments in the brokerage space in general Outreach efforts, including the next generation of investors

Mark Sebastian was live at the 2016 CBOE Risk Management Conference and wasn't afraid to talk about it. Today, he's talking to Satoshi Iwanaga, Chairman of Eurekahedge They discuss: What is Eurekahedge? Trends in the hedge fund space Returns from bigger versus smaller firms Investment and capital flows And more

We are back with roving reporter Mark Sebastian who was live at the 2016 CBOE Risk Management Conference. Today, he's talking to James Koutoulas, CEO of Typhon They discuss: What does Typhon have to offer clients? What are their specialities? The volatility space in general The dynamic approach to trading volatility Vol products versus ag products in the CTA space Allocations How to work with CTAs

In this episode, our roving reporter Mark Sebastian is on assignment at the CBOE Risk Management Conference, where he sat down with Ben Londergan, Executive Managing Director, Head of Options Trading and Technology for Convergex They discuss: Less liquidity, greater concentration levels Dilenation between on-floor and off-floor liquidity Institutional money coming into the options market How will pension money impact the market in the next few years? Did the elevated VIX change client behaviors? Holding onto versus selling volatility What is Convergex doing for low-latency spread trades? What else is going on at Convergex? And more

In this episode, our roving reporter Mark Sebastian is on assignment at the CBOE Risk Management Conference, where he sat down with Pat Fay from FTSE Russell Indexes. They discuss: Exploration of ETFs/ETNs based on various strategies Relative value trading; RUT vs. SPX FTSE 100 & FTSE China 50 futures contract at CME Cash options products coming soon at CBOE Where should Russell put its index efforts? New developments at FTSE and Russell

Today, Mark is joined by Ilya Feygin live from the CBOE Risk Management Conference. They discuss: Ilya's experience in the options space The days before VIX was a trade-able product / volatility as an asset class What is the WallachBeth Scout Group? Threat evaluation, risk management, and execution reviews The right strategies for the right enviroments How to be adaptable in a way that is accessible to various asset managers The recent flight to safety Is exchange fragmentation impacting liquidity?

In this episode, Mark is joined by Lee Clifford, founder and CEO of the GRID Trade Network They discuss: What are Symbol Master and GRID Trade? The huge number of orders that are not not communicated securely What does GRID Trade and GRID Pod bring to the table? Participating in GRID Pod conversations The compliance aspect And more

Options Insider Radio Interviews: Sorting through the Mass of Data with RB Trader In this episode, Mark is joined by Tim Biggam, Senior Advisor at RB Trader They discuss: Tim's history in the financial space What is RB Trader? Who is the RB Trader audience? The degree of customization from the RB Trader platform And more

In this episode, Mark is joined by Peter Hauser, Managing Director of TradeLegs They discuss: What is TradeLegs? How does TradeLegs work? Who is the target customer for the TradeLegs platform? The misperceptions about options How are new adoptees using the TradeLegs platform? And more

In this episode, Mark is joined by Henry Schwartz, major Duomo at TradeAlert. Henry is wearing a different hat today, though, and talking about WhatsTrading.com They discuss: What is whatstrading.com? Who is the intended audience for whatstrading.com? Getting information vs. getting information in context Bells and whistles of whatstrading.com And more

In this episode, Mark chats with Paul Giedraitis, Principal and Co-Founder of Neurensic. They discuss: Paul’s background in the financial space What is Neurensic? Who is Neurensic’s ideal customer? Why is spoofing so prevalent these days? And more