Bloomberg has published a feature under the headline "How India Built and Broke the World's Biggest Options Market," examining the trajectory of India's index options complex, which by contract volume became the largest options market globally.

The headline itself frames the arc: construction first, breakdown second. For execution desks that routed retail-driven flow into NSE index options over the past decade, the piece is a prompt to revisit what sustained that volume — a heavy retail participation base, weekly expiries, and low-cost access — and what has since curtailed it.

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What should desks watch next?

Stories of this type typically pair with regulator-driven changes already visible in Indian derivatives: expiry-day restructuring, position-limit tightening, and lot-size revisions. Until the article's specifics are verified against exchange circulars and SEBI filings, treat its framing — built, then broken — as an asserted narrative rather than a measured finding. The full Bloomberg feature supplies the underlying data and reporting.