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Type a symbol and the platform hands you fourteen sections about it. This guide is about which four you actually read, and in what order.
Options sentiment, Apex levels, a dealer gamma profile, a VoPR scanner, Congress and insider filings, ETF fund flow, and the live chain. It is the deepest page on the platform and the easiest one to get lost in, so we are going to walk it the way you would on a Tuesday morning with one name to check.
THE 60-SECOND VERSION
Three questions, then a decision.
Fourteen sections sounds like a research project. It is not. Everything on this page exists to answer three questions, and if you hold those in your head the page becomes small and fast.
Is anyone actually here?
The Smart Money panel and the View Flows link. One print is noise. Five aggressive prints on one strike over three weeks is a campaign. This is a counting exercise, not a reading exercise.
How far can it realistically go?
Expected move, Apex levels, the flip level, and the OI sandwich. These give you a target and a stop that come from the options market rather than from a line you drew.
Am I buying or selling this volatility?
Avg IV, the Vol Regime, and the VoPR scanner. Same thesis, opposite structure depending on whether premium is cheap or expensive. Getting this backwards is the most common way to be right and still lose.
The warning the page gives you itself: every options metric on the page is specific to the selected expiration. Skew, expected move, Apex levels and the gamma profile all change when you switch expiry, sometimes dramatically. Set the expiry you intend to trade first, then read everything else.
THE ALPHA
It is the difference between a tip and a thesis.
A single alert gives you a name. This page either builds a case around it or kills the idea in a few minutes. Both outcomes are worth the time.
Repeat flow is one of the more reliable patterns in this data, and it is invisible on any page that only shows today. View Flows lets you count it, and a count is much harder to argue yourself out of than a feeling.
The GEX page covers a handful of major ETFs. This gives you Apex levels, an OI concentration ranking and a dealer gamma profile for whatever symbol you typed. That is genuinely rare.
Most traders pick a direction and then buy it at whatever it costs. IV Skew tells you which direction the market has already made expensive, so you can express the same view for less.
ANNOTATED WALKTHROUGH
Four stops down the page.
The rail down the left side jumps to any of the fourteen sections. We are going to use four of them, in this order, and the other ten are there for when a specific question comes up. MU as the example throughout, illustrative numbers.
STOP 1 · OVERVIEW
The header already answered three things.
You typed MU and hit enter. Before you scroll a single pixel, six numbers are on screen: volume, an Options Sentiment score, the price of optionality, and three dealer-positioning levels.
| Ticker | Price | Avg IV 1 | Sentiment 2 | Max Pain / Pin 3 | Flip Level 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MU | $104.80+1.8% | 46% | 68 · BULLISH | $102pin $105 | $101.50 |
Illustrative row built from the real hero-stat set. Not live quotes, not recommendations.
Avg IV, what you are paying
46% is meaningless on its own. It matters against its own recent range, which is what the Vol Regime read further down the page gives you (it needs 30 bars of price history before it can classify).
LOOK FOR → IV vs its own recent range
Options Sentiment, the composite
One score built from three weighted signals: C/P Volume (40%), P/C Open Interest (35%, inverted), and IV Skew (25%). 50 is neutral, 60+ is bullish, below 40 is bearish. It needs at least two of the three signals to compute at all.
LOOK FOR → 60+ bullish, below 40 bearish
Max Pain and Pin Strike
Where the chain wants price to finish, and the strike carrying the largest dealer gamma. Spot at $104.80 with a pin at $105 means the structure is barely pulling on this trade either way.
LOOK FOR → pin above or below your entry
Flip Level, fade or follow
Above it, dealers hedge against the move and volatility gets dampened, so you fade extensions. Below it they hedge with the move and it amplifies, so you respect trends. MU at $104.80 sits above $101.50.
LOOK FOR → which side of the flip you are on
STOP 2 · SIGNALS
Three bars, and what it means when they disagree.
The Signal Breakdown splits the Options Sentiment score into its three inputs: today's C/P Volume, the existing P/C Open Interest, and the IV Skew. The score is most useful when all three agree. When they diverge, the market is at odds with itself, and that disagreement is often more tradeable than agreement.
High conviction
C/P Volume bullish, P/C Open Interest bullish, IV Skew mildly bullish. Fresh buying, existing positioning and the pricing of the chain all lean the same way. This is the clean case, and it is rarer than you would think.
VOLUME + OI + SKEW → ONE DIRECTION
Potential squeeze setup
P/C Open Interest bearish (old hedges already in place) plus C/P Volume bullish (fresh call buying today) equals a potential squeeze: if price runs, those existing shorts and hedges have to be covered into it.
OLD HEDGES + FRESH BUYING → SQUEEZE RISK
And the IV Skew bar tells you how to buy it. High put skew means downside is already priced in, so buying puts is expensive. Express the same bearish view by selling put spreads instead. Flat or negative skew means calls are cheap relative to puts. Most people pick a direction and pay whatever it costs; this bar is how you stop doing that. Right after Signals sits the OI Sandwich, the OI-weighted center of mass of the chain, well before you ever reach the chart itself.
STOP 3 · APEX LEVELS
Your target and your stop, from the chain.
Apex levels mark the strikes where dealer positioning concentrates, so where moves tend to stall, absorb or reject. Each label reads Magnet or Level with a strength score from 0 to 100 and the open interest behind it. That score measures dealer-hedging concentration, not probability. Place targets and stops at these prices rather than at round numbers.
| Strike | Read | Label |
|---|---|---|
| $112 | Call-dominant strike. Dampens moves through it. | Level 64 · 21K OI |
| $110 | Dominant magnet. Strongest level on the chain. This is the target. | Magnet 91 · 45K OI |
| $104.80 | Spot. Inside the sandwich band, compression not trend. | SPOT |
| $101.50 | Gamma flip. Above it hedging dampens moves, below it amplifies them. | FLIP |
| $100 | Put-dominant strike. Amplifies moves through it. Stop sits under this. | Level 77 · 33K OI |
Illustrative levels built from the real Magnet/Level naming and OI Sandwich fields. Not live quotes, not recommendations.
The OI Sandwich sits earlier in the rail, right after Signals and well before the chart: the OI-weighted center of mass of the chain, within about 15% of spot.
| Field | Value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| Snap Score | 18 | OpEx snap-back risk, low means pinned |
| Gravity Center | $106.40 | OI-weighted heaviest positioning |
| Sandwich Band | $101.00 to $110.00 | put/call centroid floor to ceiling, 8.6% wide |
Read that as a sentence: MU sits pinned inside a $101 to $110 band, above the gamma flip, with the strongest magnet on the chain at $110 and a heavy put wall at $100. The structure says compression now, a realistic ceiling at $110, and a floor that has to break before the trade is wrong. That is a target and a stop, and neither of them came from a trendline.
STOP 4 · SMART MONEY
Three independent sources, not one flow list.
This section is not the print-counting tool. It's Congress trades disclosed in the last 90 days, Form 4 insider trades in the last 90 days, and Active ETF fund flow: whether tracked ETFs are adding or trimming the name, with a conviction score built from fund count and average weight change.
| Block | Window | Signal 4 | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congress | 90d | 2 BUY | Two disclosures, both purchases, one over $250K |
| Insider Trades | 90d | 1 SELL | Form 4, a scheduled 10b5-1 sale, not a surprise exit |
| Active ETF Flow | latest | BUYING | 5 funds adding, conviction 6.8, avg weight +0.14% |
Illustrative rows built from the real three-block structure (Congress · Form 4 · Active ETF flow). Not live quotes, not recommendations.
Where the print-counting actually happens
The header's View Flows pill takes you to Live Flow for this ticker: real filters for Type, Sentiment, Min Premium, Min Score, DTE, and an Advanced panel with Moneyness and Trade Type (including GOLDEN_SWEEP). That's where you count five-or-more aggressive prints in 30 days, not here.
LOOK FOR → Min Score 85+, Trade Type: SWEEP + GOLDEN_SWEEP, one side
The other ten sections, and the question each one answers
You do not need these on a normal day. You need them when a specific doubt shows up, and knowing which one to jump to is the whole skill.
✓Confirm the target and the stop
✕Zoom into the mechanism
THE PLAYBOOK
Five rules, straight from the tool.
These are close to the page's own in-app help copy for extracting an edge from it. Worth memorising: each one closes off a specific way people lose money here.
Size trades to the expected move
The expected move is the mid-market price of the ATM straddle, expressed as both dollars and percent. If it prices a 5% move, your target and stop belong inside that range. A trade that needs 10% is a bet against the market's own estimate.
Skew tells you which direction is expensive
High put skew means downside is already priced, so buying puts is overpaying. Sell put spreads or buy call spreads instead. Flat or negative skew means calls are cheap relative to puts.
Read the signal breakdown for conviction
All three bars agreeing is high conviction. Diverging means the market is at odds with itself. Bearish P/C Open Interest plus bullish C/P Volume is the squeeze case worth knowing by heart.
Trade the Apex levels as structure
The put and call walls define the dealer hedging zone. Put targets and stops on them, then check the flip: above it, fade extensions back toward the magnet; below it, respect that moves can accelerate.
Confirm with Smart Money, do not trigger on it
Fresh flow on Live Flow, the Sentiment score, and Congress/insider/ETF activity all pointing the same way is far stronger than any one alone. None of it is a trigger by itself, and filings lag the trade by design.
WORKED EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
All five rules, on the MU we just read.
Everything below comes from the four stops above. Real ticker, illustrative fills. Note how much of the decision was already made by the time we opened the chain.
Set the expiry, then take the expected move
November expiry selected first, because every number on the page is scoped to it. Expected move for that window is roughly ±16%, which puts the reachable cone's ceiling around $121. The dominant magnet at $110 sits comfortably inside that cone, so the OI structure supplies the target and the cone confirms it is reachable.
Check the three bars before you get excited
C/P Volume bullish, P/C Open Interest bullish, IV Skew mildly bullish. All three lean the same way, so this is the high-conviction case rather than the squeeze case. Sentiment score lands at 68.
Skew is flat, so calls are the cheap way to say it
If put skew had been steep, the honest structure would have been selling a put spread instead. It is not, so buying calls is a fair price for the view.
Levels do the sizing, then you send it
Target is the $110 magnet. Stop goes under the $100 put wall, which also sits below the $101.50 flip, so a break there means hedging starts amplifying moves against you. Buy 3 MU $105 calls, 68 DTE at $7.10, which is $2,130 at risk.
The confirmation you already had
Live Flow shows seven aggressive prints in 30 days, five on the $110 November contract, top score 112. Smart Money shows 5 tracked ETFs adding with a conviction score of 6.8 and two Congressional purchases. Flow, sentiment and fund activity all pointing one way is why this is three contracts and not one.
Illustrative. Price stopped at $110 almost exactly, which is what the magnet was telling you it would do. That is the part worth taking from this, not the number.
MU closes $99 on a sector downgrade, through the put wall and through the flip. The calls mark $3.40 and you are out down $1,110. Every one of those seven prints is still sitting in Live Flow looking exactly as convincing as it did before you entered. Repeat flow tells you somebody has conviction. It never tells you they are right, and it says nothing at all about timing. The written stop is the only part of this page that protected you, and it is the part with no data behind it.
THE FILTER
Green flags, red flags.
✓You have a case when…
✕Drop the idea when…
HOW PEOPLE LOSE MONEY HERE
Four mistakes, in order of cost.
Reading the whole page on the wrong expiry
Skew, expected move, Apex levels and the gamma profile are all scoped to whichever expiration is selected. Read them on the weekly, trade a January contract, and you have carefully researched a completely different instrument. Nothing on screen warns you, because nothing on screen is wrong.
Treating Smart Money as a flow feed
This section is Congress, Form 4 insiders and ETF flow, not a live count of aggressive options prints. Reading it as if it were the flow history means you never actually count anything.
Confusing conviction with correctness
Seven aggressive prints means seven decisions by people with more capital than you. It does not mean they are right. A convincing history is exactly what makes a stop feel unnecessary, and that feeling is the expensive part.
Using all fourteen sections and ending up less sure
Fourteen panels is enough to argue yourself into or out of anything. People spend forty minutes here, finish with more doubt than they started with, and then trade on the last thing they read rather than the strongest thing.
PAIRS WITH
This is the middle of the workflow, not the start.
Something else gives you the name. This page decides whether the name survives. Then something else turns it into a structure you can send.
Run the four stops on the last five names you traded.
How many had five or more aggressive prints behind them at the time? How many had a target inside the expected move? How many had a real Apex level to stop under? The answer is usually uncomfortable, and it is the fastest way to understand what this page is actually for.
Every ticker, level, score, flow count, fill and P&L on this page is illustrative and built from the real structure of the tool. Apex level strength measures dealer-hedging concentration, not probability. All options metrics are specific to the selected expiration. 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.