Boxes and Lines

With irreverence and insight, IEX’s Ronan Ryan and John “JR” Ramsay hold court on market structure with Wall Street’s most savvy market practitioners, sharing their insiders’ view on how the Street really works.

Listen to latest episode

Boxes and Lines Cover Art

Follow Our Podcast

Recent Episodes

Our 2025 Summer Interns Take the Mic

Posted August 20, 202500:52:23

In this special episode of Boxes and Lines, Ronan and JR sit down with members of IEX’s 2025 summer intern class, mostly incoming seniors...

Bingo! With T. Rowe Price’s Mett Kinak

Posted August 6, 202500:40:32

On the latest episode of Boxes and Lines, Ronan and JR welcome back Mett Kinak, Head of Global Trading at T. Rowe Price, for some real talk about market...

Boxes and Lines Lite: Welcome to the Pennyverse

Posted July 2, 202500:17:29

Subdollar stocks —those priced under $1—now make up nearly half of all share volume in U.S. markets, while contributing a fraction of the notional...

From the Archives: The Blurring of Burr: Warring Founding Fathers, Treason, and Romance Novels

Posted June 24, 202500:32:20

We’re re-airing one of our most surprising and most popular episodes for you this week -- a deep dive into Aaron Burr from January 2023. This episode...

Boxes and Lines Lite: Tokenization: Back to the Future (Again)

Posted May 29, 202500:11:59

Tokenization. You’ve been hearing about it since 2017. So have we. In this short episode of Boxes and Lines, Ronan and JR unpack the hype...