Knowledge Base

The platform is powered by professional-grade options market data, sourced from a top-tier institutional data provider and continuously updated throughout the trading session.

Our options data — including strikes, expirations, Greeks, open interest, and volume — drives derived metrics such as GEX, which are computed and refreshed in real time, ensuring accuracy and completeness. When the connection is healthy, the terminal header displays the exact time of the most recent update.

K-Line (Candlestick) Data is sourced from professional U.S. market data feeds and updated every minute. Each 1-minute OHLCV bar is ingested as soon as it closes.

VIX Data is sourced from an authoritative volatility-index data feed. Note: VIX data may carry a 15-minute delay depending on the data tier.

GEX (Gamma Exposure) measures the aggregate gamma hedging pressure that market makers face at each strike price. Because market makers are typically short options, they must delta-hedge — and the size and direction of that hedging depends on gamma.

Positive Gamma Environment (price above Gamma Flip): Market makers hedge against the move — they sell into rallies and buy into dips. This creates a mean-reverting, low-volatility regime.

Negative Gamma Environment (price below Gamma Flip): Market makers hedge with the move — they sell into selloffs and buy into rallies. This creates a trend-amplifying, high-volatility regime.

The platform visualizes GEX as a heatmap overlaid on the price chart, showing how gamma concentration shifts across strikes over time. Dense zones indicate strong hedging walls; sparse zones indicate price can move freely.

DEX (Delta Exposure) measures the directional hedging pressure on market makers at each strike. While GEX tells you about volatility regime, DEX tells you about directional bias.

Positive DEX at a strike means market makers are net short delta there — they need to buy the underlying to hedge, creating upward pressure.

Negative DEX means they need to sell to hedge, creating downward pressure.

Gamma Flip is the price level where aggregate dealer gamma transitions from positive to negative. It is arguably the single most important structural level derived from options positioning.

• Above the Flip: Dealers are long gamma → they suppress volatility. Price tends to consolidate and mean-revert.
• Below the Flip: Dealers are short gamma → they amplify moves. Price tends to trend and gap.

Calculation: For each strike and expiration, the platform computes gamma using the Black-Scholes model, then aggregates across the entire chain, weighted by open interest. The zero-crossing of this aggregate curve is the Gamma Flip.

Call Wall is the strike with the highest positive gamma concentration from call options. It acts as a resistance magnet — market makers hedging short calls at this strike create selling pressure as price approaches.

Put Wall is the strike with the highest gamma concentration from put options. It acts as a support magnet — market makers hedging short puts create buying pressure at this level.

Together, Call Wall and Put Wall define the most likely trading range for the session. Price tends to oscillate between these two levels in a positive gamma environment.

The platform also tracks the Put/Call Ratio in two dimensions:

• Full-chain: Total puts vs calls across all strikes
• Near-the-money (±2%): Puts vs calls within 2% of the current price — more sensitive to short-term sentiment shifts

Max Pain (Maximum Pain Point) is the strike price at which the total dollar value of all outstanding options (both puts and calls) would expire worthless — causing the maximum aggregate loss for option buyers.

As expiration approaches, there is a well-documented tendency for the underlying to gravitate toward Max Pain. This “gravity effect” is strongest in the final 1-2 days before expiration.

Max Pain is recalculated daily at 9:30 AM ET when fresh open interest data becomes available.

Implied Volatility (IV) reflects the market's expectation of future price movement, derived from option prices via Black-Scholes inversion. Higher IV means the market expects larger moves.

The platform uses Greeks internally to compute GEX, DEX, and structural analysis. Individual Greeks are not displayed as raw numbers; instead, they are synthesized into actionable levels and visual indicators.

Open Interest (OI) represents the total number of outstanding option contracts that have not been settled. OI data is updated once daily at 9:30 AM ET when the exchanges publish the prior day's final figures.

Volume is the number of contracts traded during the current session. Unlike OI, volume is cumulative intraday and resets each morning.

The Turnover Heatmap uses volume data as its foundation, visualizing where trading activity concentrates relative to the price chart. During regular hours, it shows incremental flow; in pre-market review mode, it displays the last locked pre-market snapshot.