How to Trade Earnings With GEX: The Complete Playbook
Trading earnings with GEX gives you structural context that pure fundamental and technical analysis can’t provide. The gamma exposure structure heading into an earnings announcement tells you where the expiration pin target is, whether the structure will amplify or dampen the post-earnings move, and how to position for the IV crush that follows every announcement. […]
How to Trade Put Walls and Call Walls Using GEX Data
Put walls and call walls are two of the most actionable levels GEX data produces, and they’re consistently underused by traders who focus only on the gamma flip and gamma wall. Understanding what call walls and put walls are, why they form, and how to trade them adds two high-conviction level types to every trading […]
How to Combine GEX and Options Flow for High-Conviction Trade Setups
How to Combine GEX and Options Flow for High-Conviction Trade Setups Using GEX and options flow together is the highest-conviction approach available to retail traders, and most traders use only one or the other. GEX tells you the structural conditions. Flow tells you the directional intent. When both align, you have a trade with structural […]
Gamma Squeeze vs Short Squeeze: What’s the Difference?
A gamma squeeze and a short squeeze are two of the most explosive moves in markets, and they’re constantly confused with each other. Both can send a stock up 50%+ in days. Both involve forced buying. But the mechanics are completely different, the warning signs are different, and the way you trade them is different. […]
How to Trade FOMC Days Using Gamma and Vanna Data
FOMC days are the most dangerous trading sessions of the year for retail options traders, and among the most profitable for those who understand the mechanics. The post-announcement move isn’t just about what the Fed said. It’s about what gamma and vanna do in response to the volatility shift that follows the announcement. Here’s the […]
How Institutional Traders Use Options: What Retail Can Learn
Understanding how institutional traders use options is the fastest way to stop being on the wrong side of the trades that move markets. Institutions aren’t smarter than retail traders because they have better chart reading skills. They’re smarter because they use options to see information that pure price-action traders can’t access, and their positioning creates […]
What Is a Volatility Regime? How to Identify and Trade Each One
A volatility regime is the structural state of the market, low volatility with suppressed, range-bound price action, or high volatility with expanding, trending, amplified moves. Every trading strategy that works in one regime fails in another. Identifying the current volatility regime before placing a trade is the single most important context decision an active trader […]
SpotGamma Alternative: How SweepAlgo Compares for Retail Traders
Looking for a SpotGamma alternative? SpotGamma is the most established gamma exposure platform in the market, and one of the most expensive. At $99–$299/month, it prices out most retail traders. This comparison covers exactly what SpotGamma offers, where it falls short, and why SweepAlgo is the strongest alternative for active retail options traders. Table of […]
What Is Unusual Options Activity? How to Find and Trade It
Every day, thousands of options contracts trade quietly in the background. And then, sometimes, a ticker that normally sees 300 contracts in a session suddenly prints 15,000. An expiration nobody was watching gets loaded up with a single $2 million premium purchase. A put sweep hits at the ask with 3x the normal daily volume […]
What Is Options Flow? How to Read the Smart Money Tape
Most retail traders watch price. Institutional traders watch flow. That gap, between reacting to what price did and seeing what money is doing, is one of the most consistent edges in modern markets. Options flow is the real-time tape of every options contract traded: who’s buying, what they’re buying, how much they’re spending, and how […]
