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Every ticker with real options-flow money behind it today, one card each, sized by how much premium is riding on it and colored by which way that premium leans.
There is no sort button on this page and no score printed on a tile. Card size is premium. Card color is direction. A quiet glow around the edge is the one urgency signal here, and it is easy to miss if you are only looking at size.
THE 60-SECOND VERSION
Size, color, and a glow you have to look for.
Three separate reads live on one card, and they answer three separate questions. Confusing them is how people misuse this page.
Size is premium, nothing else
Card height scales only with total dollar premium for that ticker today. How the flow was filled, aggressive or calm, has no say in how big the card looks.
Color is direction, glow is speed
Net premium-weighted sentiment picks green, red, or gray. A glow layered on top of a colored card, and only a colored card, brightens with how much of that ticker's flow today was aggressive execution. Two different questions, one tile.
There is no sort button
The board is grouped bullish, then neutral, then bearish, and sorted by premium inside each group. If you want the most aggressive names specifically, you read the glow by eye. Nothing on the page ranks by it directly.
THE ALPHA
It replaces forty rows with one picture.
The main flow feed is a list you scroll. This is the same information rebuilt as a board, so patterns you would only catch after a lot of reading show up the moment the page loads.
Ninety seconds tells you which handful of names have real money behind them today, without reading Unusual Activity one row at a time.
When several of the brightest, most bullish cards sit in one sector, that is one trade idea wearing five tickers. You would not notice that reading a feed line by line.
A modest card that is glowing bright is a name where almost every print today was aggressive. Sorting by premium alone would bury it under a couple of mega-cap hedges.
ANNOTATED · THE REAL SCREEN
Size, color, then glow. In that order.
Read the card size for how much money moved, the color for which way it leaned, and the glow for how much of it was in a hurry. There is no fourth column and no control to change the order.
| Ticker | Premium 1 | Sentiment 2 | Pattern 3 | Flows | Calls | Aggressive 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMCI | $2.14M | BULLISH89% Bull / 11% Bear | GOLDEN_SWEEP | 11 | 91% | 82%9 of 11 |
| MU | $1.62M | BULLISH68% Bull / 32% Bear | SWEEP | 7 | 71% | 71%5 of 7 |
| RIVN | $284K | BULLISH58% Bull / 42% Bear | SPLIT | 3 | 67% | 33%1 of 3 |
| SPY | $14.8M | NEUTRAL47% Bull / 53% Bear | SPLIT | 6 | 50% | 17%1 of 6 |
Illustrative rows built from the real column set and formulas. Not live quotes, not recommendations.
Premium: the only thing that sets size
Total dollar premium for that ticker today, nothing else. $2.14M and $14.8M produce genuinely different card heights (150 to 270px); how the flow was filled has no vote in it.
LOOK FOR → big enough that you'd notice it without the color
Sentiment: Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral
(Bullish premium minus Bearish premium) as a share of total premium. Above +10 renders green, below -10 renders red, and anything between is Neutral gray, no matter how large the card is. That is the SPY row below: $14.8M and gray.
LOOK FOR → a real color, not gray
Dominant Pattern
The single most common flow type detected for that ticker today. GOLDEN_SWEEP, SWEEP, and BLOCK all count toward the urgency score, three different ways of moving fast or moving all at once; SPLIT is the patient one, an order worked into the tape over multiple smaller prints. A single large BLOCK can still be a negotiated hedge in practice, but the score treats it as aggressive either way.
LOOK FOR → GOLDEN_SWEEP or SWEEP
Aggressive %: the glow, as a number
Share of the day's flows filled as SWEEP, BLOCK, or GOLDEN_SWEEP rather than a patient SPLIT-style fill or other calm print. This never prints on the actual tile - it only sets how bright the card's glow is, and it ignores premium entirely. A ticker needs just two flows to qualify, so two aggressive prints on a quiet name reads 100%, same as ninety would on a busy one.
LOOK FOR → 70%+ on a card that's already colored
THE MECHANISM
Big and calm is not the same as small and urgent.
Two cards can look completely different for completely unrelated reasons. Knowing which one you're looking at is most of the skill here.
Looks important. Often isn't.
Huge premium, a near-even bull/bear split, SPLIT as the dominant pattern. The card is large because a lot of money worked patiently into the tape over many prints, not because anyone agreed on a direction or was in a rush.
SIZE + LOW AGGRESSIVE % = SIZE WITHOUT HEAT
Easy to miss. Worth the look.
Modest premium, but nearly every print today was a sweep or a golden sweep and the split is lopsided. The glow is bright even though the card isn't the biggest thing on the board.
LOW SIZE + HIGH AGGRESSIVE % = HEAT WITHOUT SIZE
Look at where SPY actually sits: it is the single biggest card that could appear on this board at $14.8M, and it is ranked dead last, below every bullish and every bearish card, because Neutral sorts after both. Its dominant pattern is SPLIT, five of its six flows worked patiently into the tape, only one was aggressive, the split is 47/53, and it renders as a gray card with no glow at all. That is the tool working correctly. The interesting card that day is SMCI, at a fraction of the premium.
WORKED EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
The card that kept glowing.
Same workflow every time: a pre-market scan, a recheck before lunch, and an entry only once the glow has survived a few hours. Real ticker, illustrative fills.
One board, one card worth a second look
SMCI is not the biggest card on the page, SPY's $14.8M dwarfs it and sits there SPLIT-dominant and calm, but it is glowing and green: $2.14M premium, 89% of that bullish, 9 of its 11 flows today aggressive, GOLDEN_SWEEP dominant. Star it on the watchlist toggle. Nothing gets bought yet.
Still glowing, and bigger
Flow count is up to 15, 13 of them aggressive, aggressive share now 87%. Premium has grown to $2.9M. The card hasn't just stayed lit, it has grown. That is the difference between a spike and a build, and you can only see it by checking twice.
Confirm off the card, then act
Click the card, land on Ticker Search filtered to SMCI, and confirm the prints cluster near the $52 strike. Sector Flow shows XLK bullish too. Buy 3 SMCI $50 calls Nov 21 at $4.30, which is $1,290 at risk.
The glow fades before the stock does
SMCI trades $55, but the card has cooled: new flow has slowed and the aggressive share has dropped under 25%. That fade, not the price, is the exit signal, and it is a real advantage of this page: the same glow that got you in tells you when the rush is over. Contracts mark $7.60. Sell all three.
Illustrative. The waiting is the skill here. Buying at 9:05 on the first bright card would have been the same trade with far less evidence behind it.
Instead, SMCI's card keeps glowing bright all afternoon, aggressive share holds above 80%, still green, still growing, and then it gaps down 6% the next morning on a sector downgrade that has nothing to do with the options tape. Contracts mark $2.40 and you are down $570. A bright glow means a lot of people were in a hurry and agreed on a direction. It has never once meant they were right.
THE FILTER
Green flags, red flags.
✓Look twice when…
✕Treat as noise when…
HOW PEOPLE LOSE MONEY HERE
Three mistakes, in order of cost.
Assuming the biggest card is the best idea
Card size tracks one thing: total premium. It says nothing about direction or urgency. SPY can print the largest card on the entire board while being the single least informative one on it.
Reading the bull/bear bar as a call/put split
The colored bar is premium-weighted sentiment: bullish premium against the rest. It has nothing to do with how many contracts were calls versus puts, that ratio lives in the separate 'flows / % calls' line underneath, and the two numbers can disagree.
Waiting for a number that isn't there
There is no Urgency Score printed on any tile, and no control to sort by it. The glow is the whole signal, and it's read by eye, not by a column.
PAIRS WITH
This board picks the name. It never picks the trade.
There's no strike, no expiry, and no entry on a card. Those come from what you check next. There's also a star toggle on the page itself for tracking your own names, these three are for after you've found something new.
Scan the board before you open anything else tomorrow.
Look for a card that's colored and glowing, not just the biggest one on the page. Do that for a week and you'll start seeing the difference between money that showed up and money that's in a hurry.
Every ticker, premium, fill and P&L on this page is illustrative and built from the real structure of the tool. Nothing here is a recommendation, a live quote, or a promise of a result. Options carry substantial risk of loss, including total loss of premium paid.