Today · live scan
The Desk
Your daily briefing — what's moving this week, then the trades we're watching. This is a radar, not a command to trade; always confirm on your own chart first.
This Week's Events Earnings, Fed days and corporate actions to plan around.
The Week Ahead The next 7 days at a glance — the full month calendar lives on the Tape.
Trade Opportunities This Week HM5 Most-Active 142 — the name, what the scanner sees, and one way to play it.
These are trade ideas on our radar for the week — not trade calls. We always encourage paper trading to find your rhythm, and never trade what you can't afford to lose.
On the Radar
loading…▦HM5 Credit / Debit List+
The HM5 Most-Active 142 by volatility rank (HVR — the free read on IV Rank). Credit = rich premium, sell spreads. Debit = cheap premium, buy spreads.
The Edge · how to read it
A+ Signals
The two highest-conviction reversals TRIGGER paints. When one of these prints, the full HM5 gate stack has already cleared behind the scenes — your job is just to read the candle and pick the spread.
Confluence Buy
The deepest, most-filtered long in the stack
Confluence Sell
The deepest, most-filtered short in the stack
Color Language
One palette runs across all five indicators — every arrow, dot, squeeze and divergence. The full color key lives in the Playbook so you learn it once.
Idea → sized, planned trade
Build
Three tools, top to bottom: find the short strike, build the spread around it, then check it against your account rules before you send it.
Spread Builder
Pick a side, drop in the short strike from above, set the width. The house credit target is $0.10 per $1 of width — confirm the live fill on the chain.
Can I take this?
Checks the spread above against your account rules. Account size and risk % come from your Tracker settings; edit here to test a what-if.
DTE → Multiplier
| Days | ×Mult | Typical trade |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.0 | 0DTE / same-day |
| 3 | 1.7 | Weeklies (Mon→Fri) |
| 5 | 2.2 | — |
| 7 | 2.6 | One week out |
| 10 | 3.2 | — |
| 14 | 3.7 | Two weeks out |
| 21 | 4.6 | Credit range (start) |
| 30 | 5.5 | Credit sweet spot |
| 45 | 6.7 | Credit range (end) |
In your pocket
The Playbook
The parts you need at the desk. The full Tradedesk Playbook, video walkthroughs and scanner configs live at hou5emoney.com.
01The whole system in 3 sentences+
Look at the TREND labels. All five say BULL → sell puts, buy call spreads, or run the wheel long-side. All BEAR → sell calls or buy put spreads. Anything CHOP → do nothing.
Check IVR on Pulse. Above 50% = sell premium (credit spreads, CSPs, covered calls). Below 30% = buy premium (debit spreads). The number picks the structure; the color picks the direction.
Exit when the signal reverses. Purple Exit Dot, trend flip, or CVD rolling against you → close for a credit, roll out, or cut it. Never turn a defined-risk spread into an undefined one by pulling a leg.
Scanners find candidates. Indicators confirm structure. That's the entire job.
02The five indicators+
Paints candles, draws the EMA stack, fires entry arrows, drops Exit Dots. Your options entry signal.
−100/+100 strength meter with IVR / IV / EXP / ATR% pills. Decides your spread structure.
Per-bar CVD. Confirms real buying vs. fake moves — keeps you out of traps.
Three nested channels. BUY / HOLDING BULL / EXIT / WAIT. HOLDING BULL = stay in. WAIT = no new entries.
This timeframe's volume vs. its rolling average. Yellow VOL pill (≥200%) = size up. Thin gray = go small.
03Spread systems — which one+
| Setup | When | Structure |
|---|---|---|
| Bull Put CREDIT | BULL + IVR>50% | Sell OTM put, buy further OTM put. Wins if price stays above short strike. |
| Bear Call CREDIT | BEAR + IVR>50% | Sell OTM call, buy further OTM call. Wins if price stays below short strike. |
| Bull Call DEBIT | BULL + IVR<50% | Buy ATM call, sell further OTM call. Wins if price rises past long strike. |
| Bear Put DEBIT | BEAR + IVR<50% | Buy ATM put, sell further OTM put. Wins if price falls past long strike. |
Strike rule. Short strike at least 1× EXP from price — use the Strike Finder. Selling inside EXP = lower probability; selling beyond it = higher probability of expiring worthless.
04Profit-take matrix+
Place the closing order the moment you fill the opening trade. Set it, walk away, let it work.
| Structure | House close target |
|---|---|
| Bull / Bear Put Bear / Bull Call CREDIT | Buy to close at ≤ 25% of the credit — you keep ~75% and skip the gamma chase. |
| Iron Condor CREDIT | Buy to close at ≤ 25% of the credit. Two shorts = double gamma — take the bite, move on. |
| CSP / Covered Call CREDIT | Buy to close at ≤ 25% of the credit. Frees the cash / lets you roll up. |
| Bull / Bear Call/Put DEBIT | Your call — take profit when satisfied and use the Exit Dot to get out. No fixed promise. |
05Why you close early+
Theta isn't linear. The first 50% of decay on a 45 DTE spread lands in the first ~14–21 days. You're paid most of your premium long before expiry — then risk all of it for the diminishing remainder.
Gamma explodes near expiry. Inside the last 7 days a quiet +60% winner can flip to −90% in one afternoon. The last week is the most dangerous — close before you get there.
One bad pin erases a month. Take the early skim, start the next trade, compound winners.
06The Creed+
« Trade the plan. Let the colors guide you. Your only job is to obey them. »
07Glossary snapshot+
Before you click buy
The 5-Step Check
Run it on every entry. All five green or it's a wait — the next setup always comes.
Log it the moment you fill
Journal
Quick-capture every trade from your phone. It saves to the same place as the desktop Tracker on this device — log here, review there. Risk, R, and win rate are worked out for you.
New trade
Recent trades
Where this saves. Trades live in your browser on this device, shared with the desktop Tracker page. They don't sync to other devices on their own — use Export CSV to move them. On iPhone, the installed app and Safari can keep separate stores; pick one as your logging home.