Optionomics helps you answer three questions quickly:

1. What is happening right now? Live Flow and Unusual Options Activity show trades, sweeps, blocks, and alerts as they print.
2. What matters to me? For you, watchlists, alerts, and saved views keep the app focused on your symbols and trading style.
3. What should I learn from it? Trade Ideas, Trade Journal, and historical analytics help you connect signals to outcomes.

Your first 10 minutes

1. Pick your trader style. Your style seeds starter symbols and alert recipes so the platform is not empty on day one.
2. Review For you. This is your personalized home. Start with watchlist movers, triggered alerts, and trade ideas.
3. Favorite 5-10 symbols. Use names you already trade or are actively learning. Your watchlist powers For you, alert defaults, and AI prompts.
4. Open Live Flow. Watch how trades print in real time. Filter to your watchlist if the full tape feels noisy.
5. Open one symbol in Stock Analysis. Use Gamma, Delta, Premium, Volume, Skew, Term, and Vol Surface to understand positioning.
6. Journal one idea. The Trade Journal turns a signal into a tracked decision, so you can learn what works.

Pick your starting point

• New to options flow: Start with For you, then open Live Flow with your watchlist filter.
• Researching one ticker: Start with Stock Analysis, then check Unusual Options Activity for that symbol.
• Looking for ideas: Start with Trade Ideas, then journal anything you act on.
• Managing risk: Start with Alerts and Notifications so you do not have to stare at the screen all day.

The main screens

• For you — your personalized dashboard.
• Market Overview — the broad market context.
• Stock Analysis — the per-symbol research workspace.
• Live Options Flow — the full real-time tape.
• Unusual Options Activity — higher-signal alerts from the tape.
• Trade Ideas — AI-assisted setups worth reviewing.
• Trade Journal — your personal decision and outcome tracker.
• Alerts Management — rules that notify you when conditions are met.
• Saved Views — repeatable filters for Live Flow and UOA.

Terms you will see often

• Flow — options trades as they print.
• Premium — contract price times size and multiplier; a proxy for dollars committed.
• Sweep — an order routed across multiple exchanges, often suggesting urgency.
• Block — a large negotiated trade.
• Call / Put — calls benefit from upside, puts benefit from downside.
• Strike — the option's exercise price.
• Expiration / DTE — expiration date and days to expiration.
• Open interest — contracts still open from prior sessions.
• Volume — contracts traded today.
• Implied volatility (IV) — the market's pricing of expected movement.
• Gamma / Delta — Greeks that describe how option exposure changes as price moves.
• Put/Call ratio — put activity relative to call activity.
• Unusual score — Optionomics' ranking of how notable a trade or alert is.

How help works

• Quick Help (bulb icon) explains the screen you are already on.
• Take a Tour walks you through the current page when a tour is available.
• Glossary is the best place to decode platform terminology.
• Detailed documentation opens the full docs site when you want deeper reference material.

Where to learn more

• Glossary explains the financial terms used across the app.
• The Explain this icons next to charts and metrics give a plain-language readout of what you are looking at.
• Detailed docs live at docs.optionomics.ai.