In previous episodes of “Tales of the Tape,” we explored options market growth, the rise of retail trading technology and the enduring role of the trading floor.

Now, we shift to the professional trading community for a deep dive into how hedge funds, asset managers and other institutions execute complex options strategies. Joining us are Annabelle Baldwin and Kevin Holbert from SpiderRock — a firm specializing in trading and risk systems, routing logic and data analytics for global derivatives markets.

Trading floor trailblazers! Cboe Global Head of Derivatives Cathy Clay, along with Liz Dierking and Jenny Andrews of tastylive’s The LIZ & JNY Show, share their career journeys in the world of #optionstrading in the latest episode of the Tales of the Tape podcast. With plenty of amusing anecdotes interspersed, they cover:

• evolution of open outcry
• role of a market maker
• cultural differences between pits
• necessity of financial education

How is managing a portfolio of options like raising a family? What are common psychological hurdles retail traders face when automating their strategies? Find out in Episode 2 of Tales of the Tape which features Kirk Du Plessis, founder of OptionAlpha, a fintech firm offering tools to automate and research options trading strategies.

Thousands of optionable securities, hundreds of thousands of strikes, millions of trades, billions of messages - these stats describe the U.S. equity options trading ecosystem on a daily basis. In the inaugural episode of our podcast, Tales of the Tape, Cboe’s Henry Schwartz, VP, Derivatives Market Intelligence, provides his take on how the doubling of options volume has impacted markets over the past six years.