Beta tools: every so often, open your browser's Manage extensions page (edge://extensions or chrome://extensions) and click Reload on each tool marked Beta, to get the latest fixes.
Loss Guard BetaWorks with: TradingView (tradingview.com) · Edge or Chrome on a computer · not on phones, Safari or FirefoxStops you trading for the rest of the day once you hit your daily loss limit. Never locks you out of an open trade.Default: a $500 max loss, counted from your best point of the day.To change it, any time: click the puzzle piece 🧩 at the top right of your browser, then Loss Guard, then Settings. Set your max loss and press Save. (A bigger limit starts next session.)Download Loss GuardHow to install it (2 minutes, one time)
Unzip it. Right-click the file you downloaded, choose Extract All, then Extract. You now have a folder called LossGuard.
Open your browser's extensions page. Click the address bar at the top, type edge://extensions (Edge) or chrome://extensions (Chrome) and press Enter.
Turn on "Developer mode". Edge: the switch at the bottom of the menu on the left. Chrome: the switch at the top right.
Click "Load unpacked" and choose the LossGuard folder.
Its settings open by themselves. Keep the $500 default, or change it and press Save.
Important: keep TradingView's Trading Panel showing at the bottom of the chart, with your Account Balance in view — at all times. That's where Loss Guard reads your balance. If it's hidden, Loss Guard can't protect you. The thin strip is enough.
A small box on your chart shows today's profit or loss — drag it anywhere; double-click to put it back. Sound is off; you can switch a quiet sound on in its settings. It updates itself: unzip a new download over the old folder and it picks it up within a minute, as soon as you're not locked out or in a trade. Don't move or delete the LossGuard folder after installing. If your browser asks you to turn off "developer mode extensions", say no. Paper trading? Turn on "Paper trading" in Loss Guard first, so practice trades don't count. Everything stays on your computer; Loss Guard sends your numbers nowhere.
Beta: a helper, not a guarantee. Your prop firm's own rules are what count.
Session Guard BetaWorks with: TradingView (tradingview.com) · Edge or Chrome on a computer · not on phones, Safari or FirefoxLocks TradingView outside your trading hours. Never locks you out of an open trade.Default: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM New York time, Monday to Friday.To change it, any time: click the puzzle piece 🧩 at the top right of your browser, then Session Guard, then Settings. Pick your hours and press Save my hours. (Longer hours start next session.)Download Session GuardHow to install it (2 minutes, one time)
Unzip it. Right-click the file you downloaded, choose Extract All, then Extract. You now have a folder called SessionGuard.
Open your browser's extensions page. Click the address bar at the top, type edge://extensions (Edge) or chrome://extensions (Chrome) and press Enter.
Turn on "Developer mode". Edge: the switch at the bottom of the menu on the left. Chrome: the switch at the top right.
Click "Load unpacked" and choose the SessionGuard folder.
Its settings open by themselves. Keep the default hours, or change them and press Save my hours.
Important: keep TradingView's Trading Panel showing at the bottom of the chart, with your Account Balance in view — at all times. That's how Session Guard knows if you're still in a trade when your hours end. If it's hidden, it can't tell, and it locks. The thin strip is enough.
Updates itself: unzip a new download over the old folder. Don't move or delete the SessionGuard folder after installing. If your browser asks you to turn off "developer mode extensions", say no. It works alongside Loss Guard; each has its own lock. Everything stays on your computer; Session Guard sends nothing anywhere.
Beta: a helper, not a guarantee. Your prop firm's own rules are what count.
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Everything else on this page is measured: prices, headlines, the chain, the calendar. This panel is the exception. It is written by Jason, the site's owner, in his own words, when he has something to say about the day. It is opinion, it is labelled as opinion, and it lives behind its own button on purpose: it is one opinion, and the measured things come first.
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Did The Open Hold? the two moments that decide the day
The meter runs all day, but two readings matter more than any other: the one taken at 9:30, the instant New York opens, and the one taken at 10:00, half an hour later, once the opening flurry has settled and the first economic releases of the morning are out. The panel keeps both, side by side, and reads them together.
The 9:30 check
What the fourteen assets were saying the moment the cash session opened. This is the market's opening opinion, and it is often wrong: the first minutes are dominated by overnight positions being unwound and stops being run.
The 10:00 check
The same read thirty minutes later. By ten the opening noise is gone, the 10:00 data releases have landed, and money has had time to choose a direction. This is the more trustworthy of the two on its own.
Two that agree
Risk-on at both, or risk-off at both, means the day has a direction and the open confirmed it. That is a day to trade with the read.
A flip
Risk-off at 9:30 and risk-on at 10:00, or the reverse, is the strongest signal the panel produces. It means the open was wrong and money has actively changed its mind, which is a far stronger statement than a quiet agreement. The verdict line says which way it flipped and what that usually means for the rest of the session.
Mixed at either
If either check came back mixed, the day has no clear owner yet. The verdict will tell you to wait rather than pick a side.
Before 9:30
The panel shows dashes and waits. Nothing is inferred from pre-market; the checks are taken on the real open, in New York time, whatever zone you have picked for the rest of the site.
The two checks are Jason's own rule, not a textbook one. The whole point of keeping the 9:30 read after 10:00 has arrived is that the relationship between them carries information the 10:00 read alone does not.
The options read what each number means, and when it runs
The chain is read twice each morning, at 9:30 and 10:00 New York time (shown in your own zone on the panel), and then not again. Between 9:25 and 10:00 the chain is snapshotted every five minutes for free so the two reads can see how the book is changing; no analysis runs from a snapshot. The 9:30 read is mostly levels and positioning. The 10:00 read is where the flow comes alive, because by then there are snapshots to diff.
The data is CBOE's free delayed chain. Open interest is published once a day after the close, so the walls and the flip are the same lines every desk is working from. Sizes, volume and the last trade are a snapshot, not a tape, so anything below marked proxy is an honest stand-in, not the real thing.
The 10:00 read also has the real options tape: every trade printed in the contracts near the price since 9:30, from the exchanges' own feed, 15 minutes delayed like the chain. That makes sweeps and trade size real measurements, not stand-ins: a sweep is one contract hit on three or more exchanges within ten milliseconds, and ISO prints are the ones the exchange itself flagged as a sweep order. The buy/sell split and net delta from the tape are still worked out by rule, so they stay marked proxy. At 9:30 there is no tape yet.
Start here — why an options chain moves futures at all
When you buy an option, a market maker sells it to you. They do not want a directional bet, so they hedge it by trading the underlying — futures, or the ETF. That hedging is forced buying and selling, it is large, and it happens at predictable prices. So the chain is not a sentiment survey: it is a map of where somebody will be made to buy or sell, and how hard.
Two things decide everything below. Where the big open positions sit (the walls, the flip) tells you which prices matter. What is happening to the resting orders right now (size appearing, vanishing, being pulled) tells you whether those prices will actually hold when tested. Everything else on the panel is detail underneath those two questions.
Quick reference — the whole panel in one table
If you see
It means, plainly
So
Price above the gamma flip
Dealers get paid to fade moves. Their hedging pushes back against whatever price just did.
Ranges hold. Fading extremes works. Breakouts tend to fail.
Price below the gamma flip
Dealers must chase. Their hedging pushes price further the way it is already going.
Trends run further than they should. Reversals are fast and violent. Do not fade.
Call wall just above
A pile of open call positions. Dealers sell into rallies to stay hedged there.
Treat as a ceiling until it breaks on real volume.
Put wall just below
The same in reverse — a pile of puts dealers hedge against.
Treat as a floor. It is where bounces start.
Liquidity disappearing near price
The resting orders that would have slowed a move are being cancelled.
Air. Moves travel further than the news behind them justifies.
Pulling at price
Size is being yanked as price walks into it — nobody is defending that level.
The strongest single warning on the panel. Expect it to give way.
Absorption / replenished
Lots traded, size kept coming back, price barely moved. Somebody is quietly taking the other side.
That level is being defended and is holding. Respect it.
Stacking at a strike
Size piling onto one price in real time.
A wall being built now. Somebody is defending or targeting it.
IV far above realised
Options are priced for a bigger move than the market is actually making.
Premium is expensive. Favours selling it, not buying it.
Delta and cumulative delta disagree
Yesterday's positioning and today's buying point different ways.
Not a contradiction — a setup. Today is fighting what is already on.
Aggressor lean positive
Trades are hitting the offer rather than the bid — buyers are the impatient ones.
Real demand, not just resting interest.
Wide ATM spread
Thin market. Few orders between prices.
Worse fills and bigger jumps. Size down.
Everything under the headings below is the same material in more detail. If a sentence on the panel uses a word you do not know, it will be in one of these lists.
How fresh it is
The reads run at 9:30 and 10:00 New York time, shown in your own zone on the panel. Every card says two things: data as of - the time the numbers are actually from - and checked - when the site last fetched them. CBOE's free chain runs about fifteen minutes behind, so a small gap between the two is normal. Outside trading hours the data is the last session's close, the card says so, and a warning box at the top of the panel says the same, so nothing old is ever read as live.
What matters, graded
Rather than every number the chain produces, the read picks out the few that actually say something and grades each one bullish or bearish, with one plain sentence on why. Anything that reads neutral is left out on purpose - if it is not on the list, it did not point anywhere this morning. The full set of numbers is still there under all the numbers for anyone who wants them.
Can price get through? lists the levels near price and, for each, whether it should hold (resistance), give way (ease) or be fought over (contested). Chain trend is which way positioning is moving this morning, which is a different thing from where it stands.
Levels
Gamma flip
Above it dealers are long gamma and their hedging damps moves: ranges hold, breakouts fade. Below it they are short gamma and hedging amplifies moves: trends run, reversals are violent. The single most useful line for "will price go through or stall".
Call wall / put wall
The strike with the most call open interest above spot acts as resistance; the biggest put strike below acts as support. Only the ones within about a percent of price matter today.
Max pain
The strike where the most option value expires worthless. Price drifts toward it into expiry, weakly early in the week and strongly on expiry day.
Put / call OI
The chain's standing lean. Well above 1 means heavy downside hedging already on, which cushions selloffs. Well below 1 means the opposite.
Book · one snapshot
Bid/ask imbalance
Resting bid size against ask size around the money, from −1 to +1. Positive means more buyers queued than sellers. Shown for everything, then calls and puts separately.
By ring
The same imbalance in rings of strikes outward from the money: at the money, one strike out, two-to-three out, further. This is the options version of reading several levels of a book at once.
Microprice
The bid and ask weighted by the size resting on the other side, against the plain mid, in basis points. It is where the book says price really is. Positive leans up.
ATM spread
Bid-to-ask at the money as a percent of the mid. Wide is thin: expect air pockets.
Depth
Total contracts resting on the bid and on the ask across the near strikes.
Aggressor
Who is hitting. A last trade at or through the ask was buyer-initiated; at or through the bid, seller-initiated. Weighted by volume, from −1 to +1.
Net delta
What today's volume has put on directionally, in thousands of shares-equivalent, with the standing open-interest figure beside it. The volume one is the proxy for cumulative delta.
IV vs realised
What the at-the-money options are pricing against what the underlying has actually done over the last hour, both annualised. Implied far above realised means the chain is braced for more than is happening.
Fresh
Strikes where today's volume dwarfs open interest: new positioning, not stale.
Sweep proxy
Volume more than twice open interest and the last trade lifted the ask (buy) or hit the bid (sell). A real sweep needs the tape; this flags where one probably happened.
Flow · the change between snapshots
Trade velocity
Contracts traded per minute over the window, calls and puts separately.
Liquidity near price
Resting size within two strikes of spot, appearing or disappearing. Disappearing means air; appearing means a wall forming.
Adds / cancels · pulling
Size that appeared, size that vanished without trading, and how much of the cancelling was right at price. Pulling at price ahead of a move is a tell.
Stacking
The single largest build at one strike: somebody defending or targeting it.
Replenished · absorbed
Contracts that traded and kept or rebuilt their size, and the volume that went through with size replenished while the underlying barely moved. That is a level being defended and holding.
Order-flow imbalance
The standard OFI measure applied per contract and summed: bids improving or holding add to it, asks improving or holding subtract. Positive is buy pressure.
The opportunity
All of the above is reduced to the opportunities worth trading, up to four per instrument and ranked most exploitable first, because a chain can hold more than one edge at once. Each has a trigger, an invalidation, a confidence from one to five dots, and the two or three pieces of evidence behind it. There is never a play per metric, and one edge is never split to look thorough. When nothing lines up, the panel says so; that is the correct answer far more often than a trade is.
Feeds where every number and headline comes from
How healthy each kind of data is right now, and how much the read depends on it. Individual sources are not listed: what matters to you is whether something important is missing, not which provider it came from. If a price source stops responding its assets drop out of the risk read entirely rather than showing you a stale number.
Alerts breaking news and market announcements
What do you trade?
Pick any. Each one becomes a tab beside OVERVIEW, in the row just above the Money Flow panel — that is where to click to open it. The tab carries that instrument's own story, its volatility grade and its tradeability meter. Alerts follow this list too.