Tales Of The Tape
Episodes
Tales of the Tape, Episode 6 - What Makes a Market Maker
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard of market-makers: that they take the other end of trades and collect the bid/ask spread as fee for their services. But what does that r...
Tales of the Tape, Episode 5 - Beyond Vanilla: The Rise of U.S. Structured Products
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Structured products are helping power the next wave of derivativesgrowth. In this episode, Chris Bialka (VP, Head of Cboe Global Indices) andFabrice H...
Tales of the Tape, Episode 4, Annabelle Baldwin and Kevin Holbert of SpiderRock
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tales of the Tape, Episode 3 - The Liz & Jny & Cathy Show
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trading floor trailblazers! Cboe Global Head of Derivatives Cathy Clay, along with Liz Dierking and Jenny Andrews of tastylive’s The LIZ & JNY S...
Tales of the Tape, Episode 2, Kirk Du Plessis of OptionAlpha
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is managing a portfolio of options like raising a family? What are common psychological hurdles retail traders face when automating their strategi...
Tales Of The Tape, Episode 1, Henry Schwartz
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of optionable securities, hundreds of thousands of strikes, millions of trades, billions of messages - these stats describe the U.S. equity ...