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Options Analytics

Derived metrics built from the options chain: gamma exposure, max pain, IV rank, and sentiment ratios.

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Gamma Exposure (GEX)

A market wide measure of how much options dealers may need to buy or sell stock as prices move, and why it can make markets calmer or more volatile.
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Max Pain

The strike price where option buyers, as a group, would lose the most money at expiration, and why some traders watch it going into expiry.
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IV Rank Explorer

Where a stock's current implied volatility sits relative to its own history, used to judge whether options look cheap or expensive right now.
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Put to Call Ratio

A simple sentiment gauge comparing how much put volume is trading against call volume, and why extremes in either direction get watched closely.
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Market Maker Exposure

A broader read on how exposed options dealers are across the whole book, combining delta, gamma, and other greeks rather than looking at gamma alone.
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Market Cross Flow

A side by side view of options order flow across many tickers at once, built to show where money is rotating rather than just what one name is doing.
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Greeks Heatmap

A strike by expiration grid showing where a chosen greek is concentrated across the whole options chain, at a glance.
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Option Depth Flow

A strike by time chart of dealer exposure for one ticker, with candles on the same session.
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GEX Heatmap

Gamma exposure broken out across both strike and expiration at once, instead of collapsed into a single profile.
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GEX and DEX

Gamma exposure and delta exposure shown side by side, pairing a read on hedging intensity with a read on directional positioning.
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Spot Gamma and Delta

Gamma and delta exposure narrowed to the strikes closest to the current stock price, where hedging impact tends to matter most right now.
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Expected Move

The range the options market is pricing in for a stock by a given date, derived directly from options premiums rather than a guess.
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Open Interest Scan

A screen for where open interest is building or unwinding fastest across the chain, used to spot new positioning as it happens.
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Volume Scan

A ranked view of where options volume is heaviest right now, used to quickly find the contracts and tickers seeing the most action.
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Greeks

The core set of risk measures for an options contract, showing how its price is expected to react to changes in the stock, time, and volatility.
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Volatility Analysis

OI, IV Smile, and IV×OI by strike for one ticker, plus VIX and the S&P 500 Skew Index under the smile.
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Historical Volatility

How much a stock has actually moved in the past, measured directly from its own price history rather than from options prices.
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Volatility Surface 3D

A three dimensional map of implied volatility across every strike and expiration at once, showing skew and term structure together.
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EZPZ Picks

A bullish and bearish ticker leaderboard of options premium, with Current Day and Historical (Weekly) views.
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Index Trader

A dashboard focused specifically on options flow and sentiment in the major index products like SPY, QQQ, and SPX.
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Top 20 Optionable

A ranked list of the most actively traded optionable stocks, useful for finding where liquidity and options interest are concentrated.
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Market Wave

A cumulative view of options flow across the market, built to show whether buying or selling pressure has been building over the course of a session.
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Movers and Shakers Tide

Watch Net Call Premium versus Net Put Premium for about 18 mega-cap names, plotted next to SPY.
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Net Flow Graph

A chart of net bullish versus bearish options premium for a specific ticker, making shifts in options positioning easy to see at a glance.
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Historical Net Premium

A longer term view of net options premium flow, useful for spotting positioning trends that build up over weeks rather than a single session.
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0DTE Graph

A flow chart focused specifically on options expiring the same day, the fastest moving and most actively traded corner of the options market.
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Weekly-DTE Graph

A flow chart focused on options expiring within the current week, a step further out than same day contracts but still short dated.
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7-DTE Graph

A flow chart focused on options with roughly a week left until expiration, tracking positioning in that specific short term window.
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Supply and Demand X-ray

A visual map of where options open interest is concentrated by strike, used as a rough guide to potential support and resistance levels.
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Money Sentiment

Bought Ratio, Net Sentiment, and Netflow Graph for one ticker, with Current Day, Previous Hour, and Previous 15 min.
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Net Premium Heatmap

Strike-by-expiration Net Premium for one ticker, with Daily Heatmap and Weekly Heatmap.
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Ticker Explorer

A single, consolidated view of a ticker's options data, pulling flow, open interest, and key metrics together instead of checking each tool separately.
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