See what the big money is doing. Before it is news.
Every trade, filing and headline is public the moment it happens — and far too much to read. We score each against what is normal for that stock and hand you the few that matter.
Today's board is open to anyone. No account needed.
Someone is buying Apple calls, fast.
- The bet
- Price goes up
- Money spent
- $1.2M
- How sure we are
- 91 / 100
- What happened
- 4 big buys, 35 min
Every idea we publish is tracked in public — the ones that worked and the ones that did not. See the full record · Educational data. Past performance does not guarantee future results — what worked before may not work next time.
Three steps. That is all of it.
You do not need to learn a new skill to use this. Here is the whole thing.
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Step 1
We watch everything
Every options trade, every large private block, every form filed by a company executive or a member of Congress, and every headline — plus the price, trend and volatility of every stock. All day, every trading day.
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Step 2
We work out what is unusual
Almost all of it is routine, so almost all of it gets thrown away. What is left is the small number of trades that are strange for that particular stock — bigger, faster or more urgent than that name normally sees.
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Step 3
We tell you what it means
What happened, what it probably means, and how confident we are — with the reasoning shown so you can disagree with it. On your screen, or pushed to your phone. What you do next is up to you.
The words, explained once.
These are the terms that come up, and what each one actually means.
- Calls and puts
- A call is a bet that a stock goes up. A put is a bet that it goes down. Both are contracts with an expiry date attached, which is the thing that makes them different from simply owning the stock.
- Options flow
- The running list of every options trade as it happens. Very large trades are hard to hide, so the flow is the closest you can get to watching what big investors are doing with their money right now.
- Premium
- The actual dollars spent on a trade. We lead with it because it is the honest measure of how much somebody was willing to put at risk — a thousand cheap contracts can be a smaller bet than ten expensive ones.
- Unusual activity
- A trade far bigger, faster or stranger than that stock normally sees. Almost everything that happens in a day is routine; this is the small part that is worth a second look.
- A sweep
- One buyer in a hurry, taking contracts from every exchange at once instead of waiting for a better price. Paying up for speed usually means somebody thinks the clock matters.
- Dark pool
- Large trades arranged privately, away from the public exchanges, and reported afterwards. They are often the reason a stock moved when nothing visible happened.
- Implied volatility
- How much movement the market is currently pricing in. High means options are expensive, low means they are cheap — and we always show you where it sits against that stock's own past, because the number alone tells you nothing.
- Open interest
- How many contracts are still being held rather than already closed out. Where it piles up tends to act like a magnet on the price as expiry approaches.
Each of these has a page of its own — read the longer answers — and if you are starting from nothing, begin here.
Answers, not another dashboard.
Not a wall of numbers to interpret. Three kinds of short write-up, each one published the moment there is something to say, and each one showing its reasoning.
Traders spent last night betting against chip stocks. Twenty minutes after the open they had flipped and were betting on them instead. That is the third time this month, and the first two both went up from here.
Short notes written through the day whenever something actually changes — then checked afterwards against what the market really did.
Four days running, big money has been buying calls in this name while the price has barely moved.
Every idea says where to get in, where to take profit and where to get out — and it is allowed to say wait, or skip. Then we track it in public, win or lose.
Someone just spent $11.2M betting the S&P falls before the closing bell — twelve times the usual for this contract.
You describe what you want to hear about, once. We watch for it from then on, across every stock you named.
A $10M trade is a slow afternoon
in Apple and a
record in a small company.
Two ideas do most of the work here, and neither of them is a setting you have to configure.
Every yardstick is the stock's own.
Ten million dollars is a quiet afternoon in Apple and the largest thing that has ever happened to a small company. So we never measure a trade against a fixed dollar figure. We measure it against that stock's own past — what a big day looks like for that name, specifically.
That is also what stops your alerts turning into noise. A quiet stock cannot talk its way into your phone by having one busy morning, and a busy one cannot go silent forever because of one strange week.
We match like with like, too. A contract expiring this Friday is compared against other short-dated contracts, never against ones expiring in two years.
Evidence that says nothing counts against us.
When we score an idea, a check that comes back undecided lowers our confidence instead of being quietly ignored. More readings that agree on nothing should leave you less sure, not more — and a handful of checks nodding along is never enough for us to call something a signal.
Some facts are not evidence at all — they are deal-breakers. If the price has already fallen past the point where you would have got out, the idea is not less attractive, it is over. Those get checked first, before anything is scored.
Follow the money that has to tell you.
Big investors leave two kinds of trail: trades too large to hide, and forms the law requires them to file. We watch both.
Company insiders and Congress, the day they file.
When a company executive or a member of Congress buys or sells a stock, they are legally required to disclose it. The trade itself happened weeks ago; the paperwork becomes public today. We read it the day it lands, match it to the stock, and can have it on your phone before anyone writes the story about it.
House and Senate reports arrive as scans — pictures of paper. We read the text out of them, so a filing is searchable the same day instead of the same quarter.
See what we watch- The very large trades
- The ones too big to place quietly, flagged as they happen — with enough context to tell whether it looks like a real bet or just insurance.
- Unusual activity
- The patterns that keep coming up: urgent buying, single enormous trades, quiet accumulation over days, and bets on contracts expiring within the week.
- Private trades
- Big trades arranged off the public exchanges and reported afterwards, shown beside the public ones — so a move with no obvious cause has one.
- Insiders and Congress
- Every disclosure, sorted by person and by company, with alerts of its own.
Say it once.
We watch from then on.
Describe what you want to know about once. We watch for it every trading day after that, and tell you wherever you already are.
- Watch what you care about
- Unusual trades, new trade ideas, the daily write-ups, sudden shifts in where the money is going, and filings by insiders or members of Congress.
- Told where you already are
- In the app and on your phone, plus email, text message, Slack and Discord — or your own software, if you happen to write any.
- No floods
- One event sends one message, even when several of your alerts match it. Forty filings arrive as one message rather than as forty.
- See exactly what was sent
- Every alert is listed with what happened to it, so "did that actually go out?" is a question you answer by looking rather than by guessing.
Or go and find it yourself.
Everything above is us bringing things to you. This is the other direction — what to use when the question is yours rather than ours.
- Support and resistance that moves
- The price levels that actually matter, worked out from where the options money is sitting today — not from a line somebody drew on a chart last week — and redrawn as that money moves.
- What kind of market you are in
- Calm, trending, choppy or violent. Almost everything that works in one kind of market stops working in another, so every reading is shown against the market you are actually in rather than on its own.
Everything since 2011, still there.
You can go back and check for yourself. Everything since 2011 is still there, and we have never deleted any of it.
Or let your AI assistant read it.
Just ask it in English.
Most people never need this part, and nothing above it depends on it. But if you write code — or you use an AI assistant — the same data is open to them directly.
Point Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT at it.
Paste one block of settings into your assistant and it can go and look things up for you. Ask what is unusual in a stock this week and it fetches the scored trades, the money behind them, and how that shape turned out the last few times — without you writing any code.
There is a proper API too, and every call your code makes is logged with what came back, so a bug is something you read rather than something you reproduce.
Read the developer page{"mcpServers": {"optionomics": {"type": "http","url": "https://optionomics.ai/mcp","headers": {"X-USER-EMAIL": "[email protected]","X-USER-TOKEN": "$OPTIONOMICS_API_KEY"}}}}Things people ask it:
- Is anything unusual happening in NVDA this week? Reads the trades we have already scored, not the raw list
- Has this happened before, and what happened next? Goes to the public record and comes back with it
- Are traders betting up or down on Apple today? Where the money went, and when it turned
- Did anyone in Congress trade anything on my watchlist? Insider and congressional filings, matched to the stock
- What moved the chip stocks since the open? The whole sector, summarised in a paragraph
Where do you fit?
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- Fifteen years of options history, nothing deleted
- Every reading we compute, for every stock
- How expensive options are, and how that compares to the past
- Where the crowd is positioned, and which prices act like magnets
- Trend, momentum and volatility for every stock, and what kind of market it is
- Build a trade and see what it would cost before you place it
- Go back to any past trading day and read the screen as it was
- Watchlists, earnings dates and the calendar
- Everything in Delta
- The live list of options trades, as they print
- Unusual activity, judged against each stock's own normal
- The very large trades, flagged the moment they land
- Private off-exchange trades, shown next to the public ones
- What company insiders and members of Congress filed
- The stock screener — filter every US stock, rebuilt every five minutes
- The options scanner — nine setups watched continuously
- Support and resistance drawn from where the money actually sits
- The terminal: chart, trades, levels and alerts on one screen
- Alerts on any of it, sent wherever you already are
- Everything in Gamma
- Trade ideas with an entry, a target and a stop — tracked in public
- Short write-ups through the day whenever something changes
- Signals, each with a confidence score out of 100
- Machine-learning price, volatility and anomaly forecasts
- Earnings and filings, already read and summarised
- An assistant you can ask questions in the app
- The reasoning behind every reading, not just the number
- Everything in Theta
- A REST API over every reading and all of the history
- An MCP server Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT can call directly
- Test a strategy against the full fifteen years
- Your own keys, plus a log of every request and delivery
Before you sign up.
I am new to this. Is it going to be over my head?
Each thing we publish says what happened, what it probably means and how sure we are, with the reasoning underneath it. You do not need to know how options are priced to read that. Start with the free market board and the beginner's page, which assumes no prior knowledge at all.
What actually is options flow?
It is the live list of every options trade as it happens. Big investors cannot hide a very large trade, so watching the flow is the closest you can get to seeing what serious money is doing with its money right now. Our job is to tell you which of those trades are worth your attention.
Do I have to trade options to get anything out of this?
No. The stock screener, the price and volatility forecasts, the news, the insider filings and the support and resistance levels are all about the stock itself. Plenty of people use it to decide what to do with shares they already own, or simply to understand why something moved. Options traders leave the clearest trail, which is why we watch that market closely — but what we find is about the company.
How is this different from a flow scanner?
A scanner shows you every trade and leaves the judging to you. We do the judging: every trade is compared against what is normal for that particular stock, almost all of them are discarded, and what is left arrives written up with our reasoning attached. And the options tape is only one of five things we watch — the others are large private trades, insider and congressional filings, the news, and the price and trend of every stock, which is what the screener runs on.
Can I see whether you are any good before I pay?
Yes, and this is the part we would check first if we were you. Every trade idea we publish is tracked in public from the moment it appears — winners and losers, with the sample size next to every percentage. The record is a page anyone can read without an account, and so is today's live market board.
Is any of this financial advice?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. We are not investment advisers and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Options can lose you everything you put in. What we sell is research and faster information; the decision is always yours.
Do I need to be a developer?
No. Everything works in the browser and in the iPhone and Android apps. The API is there for the small number of people who would rather write code than click, and it sits on the top plan; the other three never ask you to write anything.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from your account settings, with no fee and no phone call. Plans are month to month, and you can move up or down whenever what you need changes.
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