Palm Beach options talk that ties zero-DTE habits to a harder volatility tape.
From Palm Beach, the piece puts Lex Luthinghausen under pressure on zero DTE and the volatility that can make daily nickels-and-pennies work feel brutal.

Options market talk from the trading floor outward.
Options Insider Radio Interviews brings options practitioners into focused conversations about the mechanics and direction of the options business. Recent episodes track 0DTE growth, 24-hour trading, retail brokerage risk, liquidity, education, and the conference-floor debates shaping product proposals.
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Options Insider Radio Interviews is a long-running interview lane inside the Options Insider Radio Network, focused on the people and mechanics behind the options market. It is not a beginner lecture. The show assumes listeners can follow talk of spreads, expirations, liquidity, VIX, assignment risk, market makers, brokerage risk, and product proposals without a long ramp. That gives the conversations a working-room feel. Recent episodes often begin with a live industry setting, especially the 2025 Options Industry Conference in Palm Beach, Florida, then use that backdrop to ask what is actually changing in the market. 0DTE trading is a central thread. The show returns to SPX, SPY, Tesla, NVIDIA, the proposed Mag Seven plus Broadcom expansion, and the operational risks that come with faster expiration cycles. It also spends time on 24-hour trading, customer demand, education, and the gap between what traders want and what brokers can responsibly support. The Robinhood and Trade Year conversations frame that tension clearly, with interest in growth balanced against exercise, assignment, and volatility concerns. NASDAQ appears through a product-strategy lens, while All Options USA brings attention to illiquid names and how uncertainty widens markets or pushes flow toward more liquid products. Charles Schwab adds a broker-side Q&A flavor around retail questions and platform behavior. The Securities Traders Association conversation widens the lens to the options ecosystem itself, where exchanges, market makers, and broker dealers rely on one another. Not every episode is purely trading mechanics. The Altso conversation shows the network’s community side, centered on a registered 501c3 nonprofit based in New York City helping children in developing countries with limb disorders. Still, the core identity is industry conversation. It is brisk, practical, and comfortable with disagreement. The show suits listeners who want conference-floor color, product debate, and market-structure context from people close to the order flow rather than polished investment advice.
Made for: Best for options professionals, active retail traders, and market-structure followers who already understand the basics and want informed industry color. It suits listeners tracking 0DTE, brokerage platforms, liquidity, and product changes.
What sets it apart: The show gets unusually close to the operating side of options trading, using interviews with brokers, exchanges, associations, and liquidity specialists to explain how new products meet real risk controls. Its strength is the mix of conference immediacy, practical trading shorthand, and candid debate.
Options Insider Radio is the longest-running options podcast and the flagship program on the Options Insider Radio Network. Options Insider Radio features unique and compelling interviews with the thought leaders, icons, radicals, movers and shakers that shape the options market. Whether you are an options professional looking for insightul discussion about your industry, or an active retail trader who wants a glimpse behind the scenes, this is the program for you.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects options-market headlines to concrete questions about risk, execution, liquidity, and trading-product design.
Mark Longo approaches the options market through direct interviews with people working inside it. His questions connect trading products to the machinery around them, from payment for order flow and brokerage risk to exercise rules, liquidity, and the growth of 0DTE options.
This is where your zero-day enthusiasm gets handed an exercise-and-assignment risk disclosure.
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Palm Beach options talk that ties zero-DTE habits to a harder volatility tape.
From Palm Beach, the piece puts Lex Luthinghausen under pressure on zero DTE and the volatility that can make daily nickels-and-pennies work feel brutal.
Robinhood's zero-day push runs into concerns about exercise, assignment, and risk.
Steve Quirk's conversation at the 2025 Options Industry Conference keeps its focus on zero-day options and the tension they create for both customers and brokers. Robinhood's interest in the area is clear, along with the firm's concern about the risks tied to expiration.
Palm Beach discussion of uncertainty, wider spreads, and how flow shifts when volatility jumps.
From Palm Beach, the host sits down with Matthew Boivin-Carrie, director at All Options USA, and keeps the focus on how uncertainty shapes trading conditions.
Zero DTE is framed as discipline, time pressure, and a same-day decision.
Mark Longo frames zero DTE trading as a same-day wager on direction, time decay, and discipline, with everything contained inside one session.
A clear, measured look at payment for order flow, Robinhood-style gamification, and the casino edge of frictionless trading.
Payment for order flow is framed here as one of the big tensions inside frictionless trading: the promise of easier market access, and the incentives that come with making trading feel nearly effortless.

Fast market levels before the bell.

Chart levels, trader discipline, no fluff.

Forex basics with discipline-first motivation.

Chart levels for volatile markets.

Options industry talk with the tape still showing.
This episode features an interview discussing 24-hour trading with Blue Ocean Technologies, following up on conversations from the Options Industry Conference.
This episode features an interview with James Kostoulis from Charles Schwab discussing the benefits and risks of 0DTE options, 24-hour trading, and other trading topics.
Host Mark Longo interviews Greg Stevens and Colin Songer from Fidelity at the Options Industry Conference.
Mark Longo interviews Paul Rohde, director of research at Alpha Cution, about the dark underbelly of the options market.
George Lobo and Iveson Villanova of Options and Company describe Brazil's wide spreads, limited longer-dated options liquidity, and large retail OTC market.
Options Insider Radio Interviews features Mark speaking with Fatin of Bloomberg about index derivatives, option-based strategies, zero-DTE trading, perpetual contracts, and Bloomberg’s planned 100 and 500 index products.
This episode features an interview with James Kastoulis from Charles Schwab discussing 0DTE and 24-hour trading questions in a Q&A format on the Options Insider Radio Network.
Mark Longo interviews Mead Wells about Altso (A Leg to Stand On), a nonprofit helping children with limb disorders in developing countries.
This episode features an interview discussing Robinhood's expansion into options trading and its implications for investors.
An interview at the 2025 Options Industry Conference discussing the delisting of foreign companies for national security reasons and the options trading ecosystem.
This episode features an interview with Dave Barrett, head of options strategy at NASDAQ, discussing his background and NASDAQ's approach to 0DTE options trading, particularly related to Nvidia.
Zero DTE is still the conference obsession.
Steve Quirk is back at OIC in Palm Beach, and the host goes straight at Robinhood's chief brokerage officer on zero-day options for the Mag Seven plus Broadcom.
The host opens from the 2025 Options Industry Conference in scenic, quite sunny Palm Beach and introduces Matthew Boivin-Carrie, director at All Options USA.
This episode features an interview with Dash discussing volatility, volume, and risk in the options markets.
This episode of the Options Insider Radio Network features an interview discussing options, cryptocurrency, and other financial topics with TMX, while also promoting Demand Derivatives' crowdfunding opportunity for a futures exchange.
This episode explores RobinHood's payment for order flow practices and the hidden aspects of the options market through expert interviews.