IBKR Podcasts

Neil Azous of Rareview Capital explains the inevitable reality of how bond market participants price in interest rate cuts even before the Fed’s tough love for the market is done. Note: Any performance figures mentioned in this podcast are as of the date of recording (September 1, 2022).  DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategi...

US Global Investors’ CEO and CIO Frank Holmes joins IBKR’s senior market analyst Steven Levine to discuss the health of the U.S. retail sector, amid rising inflation, higher interest rates, sour consumer sentiment, and an overall global economic slowdown. What are the catalysts behind the growing bifurcation in the retail industry? What can parking lots say about the prospects for certain stocks?...

John Kerschner, head of U.S. securitized products at Janus Henderson, points out that collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) differ in dramatic ways from collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), which many blame for igniting the Great Recession of 2007-09 – despite having related structures and a certain reliance on quantitative risk models. Join us for this insightful discussion, as Kerschner high...

Bob Lang, founder of Explosive Options, discusses risk management and position sizing for options traders with Steve Sosnick, Chief Strategist at Interactive Brokers. DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple commission charges. For more information read the “Characteristics and Risks of...

Morningstar's chief U.S. market strategist David Sekera discusses several headwinds at the start of 2022 and where he sees the market today and in the next few quarters. Learn more at the sponsor’s website: https://investor.morningstar.com/  

Veteran commodity futures broker Bill Baruch, from Blue Line Futures, navigates hard assets to conclude that maybe the worst of 2022 is behind us. Sponsor’s website: www.bluelinefutures.com

Market Chameleon cofounders, Will McBride and Dmitry Pargaminik join us to discuss the changes they’ve seen in the option market from their days as floor traders to the present as well as what inspired them to start Market Chameleon and where they see the industry going. DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spre...

IBKR’s senior market analyst Steven Levine speaks with Christine Short, Wall Street Horizon’s vice president of research, about how to read certain corporate body language cues – nonverbal signals that companies can communicate to the marketplace about their financial well-being – whether intentional or not. Among other topics, they explore how these cues can affect risk sentiment, and ultimately...

Chicago-native David Eglit wasted no time out of school finding a job on one of Chicago’s trading venues. Quickly rising through the ranks at Timber Hill, David was sent to San Francisco to help establish a presence on the floor of the Pacific Exchange. In this interview David discusses his career as an equity, options and futures trader for Timber Hill and how he came to head up the frenetic Bloc...

Rareview Capital founder and CIO Neil Azous joins Andrew Wilkinson to discuss how the Fed might fight inflation in an economy in which fiscal and monetary issues have become joined at the hip. Interactive Brokers, LLC does not have any interest, affiliation or relationship to the interviewee, their employer, or related organization. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author a...

Catherine Clay, EVP at Cboe, joins Steve Sosnick to discuss her evolution from floor trader to one of the top female executives on Wall Street.  DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple commission charges. For more information read the “Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options”...

Why do commodity call options cost more than put options? Why does equity market protection cost more than bullish exposure? In this podcast former market-maker Matt Cashman, now educational instructor at the OCC, explains key options concepts such as skew and volatility. Matt describes in detail several of the critical concepts known as the Greeks that will help investors get to grips with tradin...

What tools are available to help you go from financial hobbyist to savvy investor? Find out, as IBKR senior market analyst Steven Levine jumps into the financial education arena with Game Plan CEO and founder Vin McCaffrey, along with IBKR’s director of trading education Andrew Wilkinson, for an exciting discussion about how they are providing – and collaborating – on offering critical, finance-re...

Thomas Peterffy, Chairman and founder of Interactive Brokers, explains why IBKR’s proprietary best execution technology offers real cost savings for traders, and why the firm’s history as a pioneering market maker gives them insights that other firms simply don’t have. DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spread...

IBKR’s Andrew Wilkinson and Steven Levine speak with Gareth Ryan, founder and managing director of IUR Capital, about how equity investors can navigate through the mounting uncertainties driving today’s markets – from rising inflation to rising interest rates, and from health crises to geopolitical upheaval. We explore the meaning of market volatility, as well as different exchange-traded options...

Samantha LaDuc, founder of LaDucTrading.com, joins Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ Chief Strategist, to discuss why she favors commodities over stocks and bonds in the current monetary environment.

Jason Bloom, Invesco’s Head of Fixed Income and Alternative ETF Product Strategy, and Joe Burke, IBKR’s Head of Fixed Income, tackle issues that are at the top of most investors’ minds – namely inflation, the central bank’s efforts to combat it, and the likelihood of an economic recession. How are interest rates responding, as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, amid a backdrop of unprec...

With a distinguished career in the field of options education, Dr. Russell Rhoads PhD. Of EQDerivatives discusses the role of research in trading and how his observations in options markets enables him to support or refute commonly-held theories about trading patterns.  Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. For more information read the Characteristics and Risks of Standardi...

What would happen if the U.S. introduced a digital dollar? SEBA Bank’s head of research Yves Longchamp explores ways in which central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could transform the U.S. and global financial landscape, including a deep discussion about privacy, security, employment, competition with decentralized cryptocurrencies, and overall trust in fiat money.  

Emmet Peppers, Chairman and Founder of Good Soil Asset Management, discusses his search for transformative technology stocks and his high risk/reward investment strategies with Steve Sosnick, Chief Strategist at Interactive Brokers. DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple commission cha...

Donnie Roberts, CEO and President of the Small Exchange joins Steve Sosnick, IBKR’s Chief Strategist, to discuss how he helped pioneer electronic trading during his career, their product mix of futures contracts, and how their recent acquisition by Crypto.com may benefit customers in the future. DISCLOSURE: OPTIONS TRADING Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg s...

What is the Metaverse exactly? And what can one experience once plugged into it? Drawing Capital managing partners Sagar Joshi and Sean Van der Wal shed light on the benefits and risks of this not so science fictional landscape, as the potential for a new, multi-trillion-dollar digital economy looms on the horizon.

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers' Chief Strategist, talks with Bill Pepe, the firm's North American Stock Lending manager to discuss the key processes and pricing behind this opaque yet critical aspect of the securities business.  Note for comments at 26:15: The proceeds generated by the Stock Yield Enhancement Program are dependent upon the differential between the rate at which the shares are...

Mobeen Tahir, WisdomTree Europe's director of macroeconomic research & tactical solutions, joins us for a discussion about the catalysts driving nickel's recent volatility, including Russian export supply disruptions, futures trading, and inflationary pressures. 

IBKR’s Steve Sosnick hosts Lewis Johnson, CIO at Capital Wealth Advisors, to discuss how to utilize economic and commodities cycles for profitable investment strategies.