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Everything on this page is educational and for simulated (paper) trading only. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or place any trade with real money. Trading is a form of gambling — never risk money you can't afford to lose.
TheTape
Read the tape. Trade the plan.

TodayWhere the market stands right now

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The day in one line. Is the market broadly up or down, and how nervous is it. The green/red bar is how many of our names are up vs down — it sets your risk tone before you do anything.
New here? A 60-second read before you place a trade. Every section says what it is and why it matters. Read the full lesson →
Today's Briefing
Welcome to The Tape — pulling today's headlines together…
The 30-second read: what could swing the tape today. Every item is unpacked in its own section below · an educational read, never advice.
The backdrop

Market Overview

indices · rates · commodities

The market's vital signs — the big indexes (S&P, Nasdaq, Dow), the "fear gauge" (VIX), interest rates, the dollar, oil and gold. Why it matters: this is the weather you're trading in. A spiking VIX or jumping rates is a storm warning — don't trade the same size you would on a calm day.

PriceChgToday's range52-wk
Your names

My Watchlist

saved on this device · tap ☆ anywhere to add

Your personal list. Tap the ☆ star next to any ticker anywhere on this page — movers, setups, squeeze names, congress trades — and it lands here with its live read. Stored in your browser only; it never leaves your device.

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This Week

What could gap a name, and the calendar to plan around it — the risks come first, then the schedule.
Plan around it

The Week Ahead

Fed · CPI · Jobs · earnings · OPEX

Every market-moving event and watchlist earnings date for the month, on the day it lands. Today's square is outlined. Why it matters: these are the days that gap stocks. Past ones show what already happened — earnings carry a quick ✓ beat / = met / ✗ miss — and upcoming ones are your heads-up not to get caught holding a spread through one. Tap any event on the calendar (or any legend badge) for a plain-English explainer of what it is and why it moves the market.

Earnings Market-moving · Fed / CPI / Jobs / PPI OPEX Corp action — stay away Today (outlined)

Just Happened — what the prints said

On Deck — what to watch

The story behind the numbers

News Tape

newest first · live

The latest market headlines, newest first. Why it matters: it's the context for why things are moving. Read it to stay informed — but don't trade off a headline alone.

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Tutorials

Read these once — how to read every board, how to defend a trade, and how the desk cross-checks a signal. Not a daily read.
Read this once

Reading The Boards

methodology & ground rules · not a daily read

Everything in this group — Vertical Spreads, Options Flow, Naked Trades, Condors, Share Setups and Small-Cap Movers — is an educational example for paper (simulated) trading only — never a trade call or a recommendation to trade real money. Trading is a form of gambling; never risk what you can't afford to lose.

The HM5 Universe: our 142-name watchlist, distilled from the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 — the most liquid, most heavily-optioned names in the market. Deep chains, tight spreads, real volume: if it's worth trading, it's in here, and every board in this group speaks from this universe. Every idea on every board is checked against the HM5 Tradedesk before it ever reaches this page — nothing here is a command to trade, only somewhere to start your own research. Here's what each board actually is:

Vertical Spreads

The HM5 Tradedesk's own directional option ideas — a suggested two-leg spread (credit or debit), strikes, DTE and premium for every name that clears trend, order-flow and volume.

Options Flow

Real option-market activity — volume vs open interest, dollar premium, walls — across the same universe. Independent of the Tradedesk's own signals, and higher risk as a result.

Naked Trades

One contract, one leg, $200 or less — a plain long call or long put for accounts too small to take a spread. Reads every directional board on this page and keeps only the names where a cheap, tight-market contract can pay a quick +25% on a move the stock makes in about a day.

Condors

Neutral, defined-risk credit ideas for when nothing is trending — iron condors and iron butterflies on names that have gone quiet. Excluded automatically if the name is already on Vertical Spreads or Options Flow.

Share Setups

The same engine, translated for share traders — an entry, stop and target on names where price and order-flow agree.

Small-Cap Movers

Today's liquid small/mid-cap gainers — gappers, not chart setups. No trade plan attached. We do track how far each one runs from its first-seen price, purely as a read.

The Stack Score — what the letter on every card means
"One indicator is an opinion. Three agreeing is a trade." Every directional idea on Trade Radar now carries the same chip, and it answers one question: how many of the desk's five indicators agree with this trade's direction? It is the playbook's own rule, checked automatically on every name so you don't have to eyeball five panes to find out.
A+5/5All five agree. The setup the desk is built to find — the playbook's words: full size, no hesitation.
A4/5Four agree. One indicator is holding out. The playbook says size up.
B3/5Three agree. The minimum the playbook calls a trade — take it at normal size.
C2/5Two or fewer. The playbook calls that no trade. It still prints because the board that found it saw something real — but treat it as a name to watch, not one to size.
STACK n/aNot measurable. Small-Cap Movers come from a raw gainers feed, so four of the five were never read. A score built on unmeasured inputs would be a guess, so none is given.
The five, and the question each one answers: TRIGGER — do I take the trade, and which way? · FLOW — is the move real, or a trap? · PULSE — how strong is this move? · GRID — is the trend healthy enough to trade? · TIDE — is the pressure and the volume behind it? Hover any chip to see exactly which of the five agreed and which did not — that's the part worth learning.
Reading a card in three pills. Every idea on Trade Radar now leads with the same three, left to right, so you can scan a whole board without opening anything:
▲Direction first — bullish or bearish, and the card is tinted to match.
A+5/5Then the Stack Score — how many of the five indicators agree, explained above.
3 AGREEOptions Flow · Insider buyThen who else sees it — how many other boards on this page are showing the same name in the same direction right now, and which ones. Hover it for the full list. ONLY HERE means no other board has it — not a fault, just a single idea carrying itself, so confirm it on the chart before you size it.
Everything after those three — the setup names, UNUSUAL, an earnings flag, the days to expiration — is deliberately smaller. It is detail for once you have decided a card is worth opening, not something to compete with the three reads above.
Why agreement is worth its own pill. The boards do not talk to each other. Options Flow finds names from option premium alone and never looks at a chart; Vertical Spreads reads the chart and never looks at flow; insider filings and congressional trades come from somewhere else entirely. So when two or three of them land on the same name pointing the same way, that is genuine corroboration rather than one signal being counted twice — which is exactly what Desk Confluence is built on. Roughly a third of large options flow is hedging rather than a directional bet, and this pill is the quickest way to tell the difference.
Two things it is not. It is not a prediction, and a higher letter does not mean a bigger payoff — it means more independent systems agree, which is a different thing. And it is not a school grade: a C is not a bad trade, it is a thinly confirmed one. Condors carry no Stack Score at all — they are a neutral trade that wants the stock to go nowhere, so a score built on directional agreement would be meaningless there; they are judged on volatility rank and how much of the expected range their keep-zone covers instead.
This is an educational read, never advice. A high score is still only somewhere to start your own research. Paper trading only — not financial advice.
How to read a Vertical Spreads row
Left is the name and what the scanner sees; right is one way to play it — the spread, the strikes, days-to-expiration (DTE) and a rough premium.
If a name reports earnings inside the trade window, we flag it and sit out. Weekly = swing/spread shortlist; Daily = the faster list.
The Entry tab doesn't pick new trades — it times your entry on the Weekly/Daily picks: green means a 1H or 4H Confluence just fired in that name's direction, your green light to enter. Yellow means it's almost there — keep watching.
A name drops off the list when its setup is gone — that trade has moved on, don't chase it. Weekly picks can legitimately sit for several weeks straight, since the weekly bar only closes once a week; a name pulling back to its 21-week EMA repeatedly can re-qualify week after week without that being a stuck or broken scan.
Reading Options Flow
For every name in the HM5 Universe we read the live chain — today's call and put volume vs open interest (Vol/OI), the dollar premium actually spent, the put/call ratio, ATM implied vol, and the call/put walls (heaviest open interest — where dealer hedging pins or defends price).
When today's volume swamps existing open interest on one side, someone is opening new positions with size — that's the institutional-style "unusual activity" filter. An UNUSUAL tag = Vol/OI ≥ 2 on the dominant side with $2M+ premium behind it.
A name on both Options Flow and Vertical Spreads, in the same direction, is real confirmation — flow + chart agreeing. On its own it's context, not a command to trade; ~30–40% of big flow is hedging, so confirm on the chart first.
Reading Share Setups
Only names where price and order-flow agree (buy% and CVD confirmed) reach this list, each with an entry, stop and target.
CONFLUENCE = full-stack agreement, the highest conviction on the board. CONFIRMED = trend + flow + setup.
Reading Small-Cap Movers
Today's biggest small/mid-cap gainers across the whole market (not a fixed list) — market cap $50M–$5B, real liquidity ($5M+ in today's dollar volume), and a real move (3–60%, filtering out penny-stock noise and halted/glitchy prints).
No trade plan attached — these are gappers, not chart setups. Confirm on the chart before sizing in, and mind the spread on names this size.
The Closed In Profit board below still tracks each name from the price it first showed up here, the same profit-target rule every other board uses — but it's price tracking only, never a trade plan or a call to act.
Skip This Spread Unless...
Do not take every idea on this list. If you can't check off at least four of these nine boxes, the spread isn't A+ — pass. The premium will still be there tomorrow.
✓Trend agrees on all five dashboards — no CHOP on any indicator.
✓Pulse STRENGTH is past ±50 and moving in the trade direction.
✓IVR has been checked — you're in the right structure (credit vs. debit) for the current volatility environment.
✓Flow BIAS is on your side and ACCEL confirms the direction. No opposite CVD divergence dot in last 2 bars.
✓Your short strike is at least 1× EXP away from current price.
✓Tide verdict is a green or yellow VOL pill on your side — not a thin gray VOL pill.
✓Trigger has fired an arrow (not just colored a candle). A single colored candle without an arrow is noise.
✓Grid is BUY or HOLDING BULL — not WAIT. WAIT means no new spreads, period.
✓You know your max loss in dollars before you click. Spread width × contracts × 100 = max risk on screen.
Do NOT trade every scanner result. A name appearing below means "look here," not "act here" — heavy scrutiny first, entry second.
What the signal tags mean Each row is tagged with the setup the HM5 Tradedesk scanner fired — here's the plain-English read.
↑CONFLUENCE BUYThe desk's highest-conviction long — trend, momentum, order-flow and volume all agree on the same bar.Play it Bull call debit spread or a long call.
↓CONFLUENCE SELLThe mirror image, to the downside — the same full-stack agreement, at an exhausted top.Play it Bear put debit spread or a long put.
↑BUY DIPA pullback inside an uptrend — buying weakness while the larger trend stays up.Play it Bull put credit spread (sell the pullback) or a bull call debit spread.
↓SELL RIPA bounce inside a downtrend — selling strength while the larger trend stays down.Play it Bear call credit spread (sell the bounce) or a bear put debit spread.
↑BREAKOUTPrice clears a key level to the upside with force.Play it Bull call debit spread or a long call — go directional for the thrust.
↓BREAKDOWNPrice loses a key level to the downside with force.Play it Bear put debit spread or a long put — go directional for the drop.
↑RECLAIMPrice wins back a level it had lost — a failed breakdown turning up.Play it Bull call debit spread or a long call; bull put credit spread to sell premium.
↓RECLAIM SELLPrice loses a level it had held — a failed breakout rolling over.Play it Bear put debit spread or a long put; bear call credit spread to sell premium.
↑TRAP LONGSellers got trapped on a false breakdown; price snaps back up.Play it Long call or bull call debit spread — the snapback is fast, favor debit.
↓TRAP SHORTBuyers got trapped on a false breakout; price snaps back down.Play it Long put or bear put debit spread — the snapback is fast, favor debit.
↓RIP FADEAn extended push higher runs out of steam — fading the rip.Play it Bear call credit spread or a bear put debit spread.
How Closed In Profit works

Every idea gets a full two weeks from the moment it fires for the move to actually develop — plenty of runway, no rush. But the moment it hits our profit target, we call it closed right there instead of letting it ride. Price rarely moves in a straight line — it zigzags, and a name sitting nicely in the green today can just as easily give it back by Friday. Closing at target locks in the win instead of gambling it on the next zag flushing you out. The live percentage keeps updating after that so you always see where a name actually sits today, but its spot on the Closed In Profit list is permanent — earned the moment it hit, never taken back by a pullback.

When it goes against you

Defending A Trade

one card per structure · the trigger, the choices, the rule

Every trade on this page can go wrong. This is the short version of what to do when one does — when to fix it, when to take the loss, and what the fix actually costs you. The rule that matters most: never remove a long leg to "free up" a short one. That turns a defined-risk spread into an unlimited-risk position, and it is the single fastest way to lose an account. Read the full lesson in the Playbook →

Before any adjustment, three questions
  1. Is the reason I entered still true? If the trend flipped or the Exit Dot fired, you don't have a trade to defend — you have a trade to close.
  2. Would I open this position today, at this price? If no, adjusting is just a slower exit with extra commissions.
  3. Does the fix add risk? Rolling out in time, widening, or adding size all raise your max loss. A defense that increases what you can lose isn't a defense.
Credit

Bull Put / Bear Call Spread

Act when price touches your short strike, or at 21 DTE — whichever comes first.
  • Close it. The default. Take the loss at 1.5–2× the credit you collected and redeploy. Most professional premium sellers do only this.
  • Roll out in time — same strikes, later expiry, for a net credit. Only if you still believe the direction. You are extending duration, not reducing risk.
  • Roll the untested side in — turns a vertical into an iron condor. Collects extra credit and lowers your breakeven, but adds risk on the other side. Only worth it while the tested side is still OTM.
Don't roll down/out for a debit. Paying to stay in a losing trade is how a small loss becomes the max loss.
Debit

Bull Call / Bear Put Spread

Act when the trend label flips or the Exit Dot fires. Price alone is not a trigger.
  • Close it. You paid a premium for a directional view. The view was wrong, so the trade is over. There is nothing structurally to repair.
  • Sell a further spread to make a butterfly — takes in credit, cuts your cost basis, caps profit at the middle strike. Reduces loss, doesn't fix direction.
  • Do nothing is legitimate. Max loss is already capped and known. If it's small relative to your account, letting it expire costs nothing extra.
Don't add size to average down. You'd be doubling a thesis the chart already rejected.
Neutral

Iron Condor / Butterfly

Act when price breaks one short strike. One side is now the whole trade.
  • Close the tested side, keep the safe one. Cheapest fix. You're left with a vertical in the direction price is already going.
  • Roll the untested side closer — brings in more credit to offset the tested side. Works only once, and it narrows your win zone.
  • Close the whole thing. If price is through your short strike with under 21 DTE, gamma is against you and the range thesis is dead.
Don't widen the losing side to "give it room." You're buying more risk to avoid admitting the range broke.
Wheel · 1

Cash-Secured Put

Act when price is below your strike near expiry — assignment is coming.
  • Take the assignment. If you'd own the shares at that price, this isn't a loss — it's Stage 2 of the wheel, exactly as designed.
  • Roll out for a credit — same strike, later expiry. Delays assignment and pays you to wait. Only if you still want the shares.
  • Close for a loss if the reason you liked the name is gone. Never accept assignment on a stock you no longer want.
Only sell puts on names you'd genuinely be happy owning. The wheel breaks when you get assigned something you don't want.
Wheel · 3

Covered Call

Act when price runs above your strike — your shares are about to be called away.
  • Let them go. You sold at a price you chose. That's a win, even if the stock kept running. Redeploy the cash into a new put.
  • Roll up and out for a credit — higher strike, later expiry. Keeps the shares and raises your sale price. Only ever do this for a net credit.
  • Buy it back if the thesis changed and you now want to hold the shares outright. Costs money, so have a reason.
Don't roll a covered call for a debit to avoid being called away. That's paying to keep a stock you already agreed to sell.

Long / Short Shares

Act when price hits the stop from the card. No interpretation required.
  • Take the stop. The stop was the plan. Shares have no expiry to save you and no structure to repair.
  • Sell a covered call against it if you're long and willing to hold — collects premium while you wait, caps your upside.
  • Never move a stop lower. Moving a stop is not a defense, it's a decision to lose more.
Averaging down on a broken chart is the most expensive habit in trading. The stop exists so you don't have to decide in the moment.
The whole section in four lines
  1. Closing is a defense. It's the one that always works, costs the least, and needs no skill.
  2. Adjust to reduce risk, never to avoid a loss. If the fix raises your max loss, it isn't a fix.
  3. Only ever adjust for a credit. Paying to stay in a loser is the tell that you've stopped trading and started hoping.
  4. Never break a spread apart. Removing the long leg of a defined-risk trade is how accounts get wiped out in a single session.
Where independent boards agree

Desk Confluence

cross-board agreement · the shortest list on the page

The highest-conviction names on the entire tape. Every board on the page that carries a direction — Vertical Spreads, Options Flow, Analyst upgrades/downgrades, Insider buys/sells, Congress trades, Squeeze Watch, Gamma Squeeze, Fresh Whale Moves, Big Money Bets (13F), Futures Bias, Small-Cap Movers and Market Movers — is checked against the others, and a name only makes this list when 2 or more agree on the same direction without knowing about each other. Social Buzz adds to a name's count when retail is piling into it in that same direction. (Crypto is kept out; Share Setups and Condors already read the Vertical Spreads scan.) Still not a command to trade: run it through the Skip-This-Spread checklist on the Reading The Boards tab before you act. How to read this board →

Speak the language

Trader Shorthand

every abbreviation on this page, in plain English

Traders talk in shorthand. Here's the whole alphabet you'll meet below — skim it once and the rest of the page reads itself. Anywhere a term is underlined with dots, hover it for the meaning.

VIXVolatility Index — Wall Street's "fear gauge." Higher = the market expects bigger swings.
ETFExchange-Traded Fund — a basket of stocks you buy and sell like a single ticker.
RSIRelative Strength Index — a 0–100 momentum meter. Above 70 is "overbought," below 30 "oversold."
RVOLRelative Volume — today's trading volume vs. its own average. Above 1 means unusually busy.
IVImplied Volatility — how much movement the options market is pricing in. Higher IV = pricier options.
IVRIV Rank — where today's IV sits inside its own past-year range, 0–100. High = options are rich.
HVRHistorical Volatility Rank — our stand-in for IV Rank, same idea from price history.
DTEDays To Expiration — how many calendar days until the option expires.
Δ / DeltaDelta — how much an option moves per $1 move in the stock. A .70 delta ≈ moves about 70¢.
EXPExpected move — the ± dollar range the stock is likely to stay inside by expiration. This is the move over the whole life of the trade, not one day: the playbook's √DTE multiplier is already applied, so you don't multiply it again. (Your broker's EXP pill is a one-day number — that one you do scale.)
BEBreakeven — the stock price where the trade stops losing and starts making money.
ATM / ITM / OTMAt / In / Out of the Money — the strike price relative to where the stock trades now.
Credit spreadYou collect premium up front and want the options to expire worthless. Sells rich IV.
Debit spreadYou pay premium up front and want the stock to move your way. Buys cheap IV.
NakedA single option (one call or one put), no second leg. Your max loss is the premium paid.
OPEXOptions Expiration — monthly, the 3rd Friday. Volume spikes and prices can "pin" to strikes.
CPIConsumer Price Index — the headline inflation report; a big market mover.
PPIProducer Price Index — wholesale inflation, often a preview of the CPI trend.
CVDCumulative Volume Delta — running tally of buying vs. selling pressure.
1H / 4HThe chart timeframe — a one-hour or four-hour candle. Shorter = faster signals.
HM5Hou5eMoney 5 — our five-indicator system: trend, momentum, order-flow, structure and volume.
S&P / Nasdaq / DowThe three headline U.S. stock indexes — quick reads on the whole market's direction.
shShares — a count of shares. "81K sh" = 81,000 shares. On the 13F rows it's the share count behind the fund's option position.
$VOLDollar Volume — a stock's average daily traded value (price × volume). Higher = more liquid and easier to get in and out of.
BUY %Buyers percentage — buyers as a share of a bar's volume (our Tide read). Above 50% means buyers were in control.
STRStrength — our Pulse momentum reading. The further past ±50, the stronger the push in that direction.
ATRAverage True Range — the typical distance a name travels in a period. Bigger ATR = faster, wider swings.
HVHistorical Volatility — how much a stock has actually moved, annualized. Our read on how fast a name travels (the input to HVR).
OIOpen Interest — how many option contracts are currently open at a strike. Heavy OI marks the levels traders care about.
SIShort Interest — the shares currently sold short. High SI is the fuel for a short squeeze.
R:RRisk-to-Reward — potential gain vs. potential loss. "2:1" means the target is twice the size of the stop.
EMAExponential Moving Average — a trend line that weights recent prices more. The 21-EMA is a common pullback zone.
CSPCash-Secured Put — selling a put while holding the cash to buy the shares if assigned. Gets you paid to wait for a lower entry.
13F13F filing — the quarterly report where big funds disclose their U.S. stock and option holdings. Lags up to 45 days.
Form 4Form 4 — the SEC filing an insider must submit within 2 days of buying or selling their own company's stock.
8-K8-K — an SEC "something material just happened" filing, such as a merger agreement.
M&AMergers & Acquisitions — one company buying, merging with, or being acquired by another.
STOCK ActThe law that requires members of Congress to disclose their stock trades — what makes the Congress Trades section possible.
DominanceBTC / ETH Dominance — that coin's share of the total crypto market cap. Rising BTC dominance = money hiding in Bitcoin over alts.
Fear & GreedA 0–100 crypto sentiment gauge. Extreme fear can mark bottoms; extreme greed marks froth.
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Trade Radar

What the HM5 scanner is seeing right now, how yesterday's calls actually did, and where the higher-risk momentum is.
Built by the desk

Vertical Spreads

directional two-leg spreads — credit & debit · the HM5 Universe · 142 names

The HM5 Tradedesk's own option trade ideas — a suggested spread, strikes, DTE and premium for every name that clears trend, order-flow and volume. New here? start with Reading The Boards — the Skip This Spread checklist and signal legend live there. Paper trading only — not financial advice.

Timeframe — tap to switch the list below
~15 min delayed · you may need to nudge a strike to match your live chain

Trending Up

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Play it: bull call spreads · put credit spreads · long calls · covered calls / CSPs

Trending Down

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Play it: bear put spreads · call credit spreads · long puts
Closed In Profit

Ideas from Vertical Spreads that already hit their profit target — if you took one, you should be flat by now, not still holding. A name can print again within its own two-week window as a fresh idea; check the entry price shown here against today's, so you're not sizing into the same name twice thinking it's still the original idea.

Follow the size

Options Flow

real option volume vs open interest · the HM5 Universe · ~15 min delayed

Real option-market activity — volume vs open interest, dollar premium, walls — across the HM5 Universe, independent of the Tradedesk's own signals. New here? start with Reading The Boards for the full explanation of Vol/OI, walls and the UNUSUAL tag.

Higher risk than the rest of the desk. These names come purely from raw options-flow data — volume, open interest, premium — with no HM5 Tradedesk trend/flow/structure confirmation behind them. Treat this as a research lead, not a vetted setup: size down and confirm the chart yourself before acting. Paper trading only — not financial advice.
Volume resets each session · off-hours shows the last session's board

Bullish Flow — calls in demand

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Bearish Flow — puts in demand

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Closed In Profit

Ideas from Options Flow that already hit their profit target — if you took one, you should be flat by now, not still holding. A name can print again within its own two-week window as a fresh idea; check the entry price shown here against today's, so you're not sizing into the same name twice thinking it's still the original idea.

One contract, one leg

Naked Trades

long calls & long puts under $200 · read across the whole desk · sold back at +25%

The small-account board. One contract, one leg — a single long call or long put, $200 or less, and that premium is all you can lose. Sold back at +25%, not held. An educational example for paper (simulated) trading only. Paper trading only — not financial advice.

A long option decays fast — it can reach zero even when the direction was right. Take the +25%, cut the loser the same distance, respect the time stop. The method only works if the losers stay small. Trading is a form of gambling; never risk what you can't afford to lose. Paper trading only — not financial advice.
~15 min delayed · premium shown at the ask · confirm the live chain before you enter
Sort — the cheapest ticket is not always the best trade, so you can rank by either

Long Calls — betting it goes up

Pay the premium · sell back at +25% · that premium is the whole risk
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Long Puts — betting it goes down

Pay the premium · sell back at +25% · that premium is the whole risk
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Closed In Profit

Ideas from Naked Trades where the stock has already travelled far enough to hand you the +25% exit the card asked for — if you took one, you should be flat, not still holding. Measured against each idea's own target rather than one shared number, because a cheap contract on a quiet name and a pricier one on a fast name need very different moves. Tracked on the underlying: a long option's own price also swings on volatility and decay, so marking the contract would report as much about the vol surface as about whether the idea worked.

When nothing is trending

Condors

neutral, defined-risk credit ideas · the HM5 Universe · 142 names

The chop trade. Every other board on this page wants a name to move. These two want the opposite — you collect premium up front and keep it if the stock just sits still. Both are four-leg, defined-risk structures: your maximum loss is fixed the moment you open, no matter what the stock does.

These only print when the tape is quiet. A name is excluded outright if it's currently on Vertical Spreads or Options Flow — those boards are the breakout list, and a breakout is the one thing that breaks a condor. Empty here is normal and healthy: it means the desk is finding trends instead. Paper trading only — not financial advice.

Iron Condors

Wider zone · smaller credit · more room to be wrong

Iron Butterflies

Tighter zone · bigger credit · needs it to really sit still
Closed In Profit

Measured differently to every other board here, on purpose. A condor wins by the stock going nowhere, so a percentage move would mark every winner as a loser. These are tracked on whether price stayed inside the short strikes for the full two-week window — the actual thing that decides the trade.

Own the shares

Share Setups

stock swing trade ideas · flow-confirmed

The same engine, for share traders — an entry, stop and target on names where price and order-flow agree. New here? start with Reading The Boards for what CONFLUENCE and CONFIRMED mean here. Paper trading only — not financial advice.

Timeframe — 15m/1H = fast timing · daily = swings · weekly = position

Longs

Shorts

Closed In Profit

Ideas from Share Setups that already hit their profit target — if you took one, you should be flat by now, not still holding. A name can print again within its own two-week window as a fresh idea; check the entry price shown here against today's, so you're not sizing into the same name twice thinking it's still the original idea.

Higher risk, faster money

Small-Cap Movers

today's small/mid-cap gainers · entry, stop & target zones

Share Setups' engine, pointed at today's liquid small/mid-cap gainers — the same entry-zone/stop/target scan, run across 15m, 1H, Daily and Weekly. New here? start with Reading The Boards for the screening criteria.

High risk, fast-moving small caps — light-float names can reverse in seconds even with a real entry/stop/target on the screen. Size down hard, confirm on the chart, mind the spread. Paper trading only — not financial advice.
Timeframe — 15m/1H = fast timing · daily = swings · weekly = position

Longs

Shorts

Closed In Profit

Ideas from Small-Cap Movers' Day board that already hit their profit target — if you took one, you should be flat by now, not still holding. A name can print again within its own two-week window as a fresh idea; check the entry price shown here against today's, so you're not sizing into the same name twice thinking it's still the original idea.

Top 10 CME Micros

Futures Setups

entry, stop & target zones · MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K, MGC, SIL, MHG, MCL, MNG, MBT

Share Setups' engine, pointed at the top 10 Micro futures — an entry zone, stop and target on each contract's own proxy where price and order-flow agree, plus two extra desk checks: index-breadth agreement across the four equity micros, and gold/silver agreeing before either grades CONFLUENCE. New here? start with Reading The Boards for what CONFLUENCE and CONFIRMED mean here.

High risk, fast-moving contracts. Built from each contract's real CME continuous futures ticker (e.g. MES ← ES=F), the same HM5 engine as Share Setups — a Micro trades at the same price level as its E-mini/full-size counterpart, so the numbers here are real futures pricing, not an equity-ETF stand-in. Confirm your own fills and size down. A card grays out with a reopen time whenever that contract's own CME session is actually closed. Paper trading only — not financial advice.
Timeframe — 15m/1H = fast timing · daily = swings · weekly = position

Longs

Shorts

Closed In Profit

Ideas from Futures Setups that already hit their profit target — if you took one, you should be flat by now, not still holding. A contract can print again within its own two-week window as a fresh idea; check the entry price shown here against today's, so you're not sizing into the same setup twice thinking it's still the original idea.

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Institutional & Alt Data

What futures, Wall Street, retail, insiders, Congress, big funds and the options market are doing.
Risk on or off

Futures Bias

1H · 4H · daily HM5 bias · index & commodity

Directional bias for the major futures across 1H, 4H and Day, read through their liquid, feed-covered proxies. When all three agree, the bias is strong. This is a bias board — not scalp signals; for real-time intraday execution use your futures platform (delayed snapshot here). How to read this board →

Timeframe — all three agreeing = strongest bias
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Wall Street's read

Analyst Ranks

consensus · upgrades & downgrades

Where the analyst community sits on the most-watched names — consensus rating, recent upgrade/downgrade drift, and average price target. A screen, not gospel — analysts lag and herd. Updated daily. How to read this board →

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Retail's pulse

Social Buzz

Reddit / WSB mentions · M&A filings

What retail is talking about right now — Reddit / r/wallstreetbets mention volume with 24-hour momentum — plus real merger & acquisition 8-K filings straight from SEC EDGAR. Buzz is attention, not a buy signal — it cuts both ways. Names in your 142 universe are marked. How to read this board →

Trending Stocks

Mentions · 24h
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Merger / M&A Filings

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Follow the smart money

Insider Trades

SEC Form 4 · open-market buys & sells

Recent notable insider transactions — company officers, directors and big holders buying or selling their own stock on the open market (SEC Form 4). Open-market buys are the higher-signal ones (insiders sell for many reasons, but they buy for one). Only trades over $100k shown, last 90 days. A screen, not a signal — confirm on the chart. How to read this board →

Insider Buys

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Insider Sells

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Capitol Hill

Congress Trades

STOCK Act disclosures · official Senate eFD filings

Recent stock trades disclosed by U.S. Senators under the STOCK Act, pulled straight from the official Senate disclosure system (House filings are scanned PDFs — coming later). Disclosures lag the actual trade by up to 45 days and amounts are ranges, so treat this as context, not a signal — but it's worth knowing what the people writing the rules are buying and selling. How to read this board →

Congress Buys

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Congress Sells

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The big shorts & big bets

Big Money Bets

Stocks · quarterly positions · next update each filing season

The largest call and put option positions disclosed by famous managers — Burry, Ackman, Druckenmiller, Tepper and the rest — from their latest quarterly filings. A giant put stack (think Burry) is a bet against a name; a giant call stack is high-conviction upside. ⚠️ These are quarterly snapshots that post up to ~45 days after quarter-end, show U.S.-listed longs and options only (no direct shorts or swaps), and positions may have changed since — context, not a signal. For the faster-moving side, see Fresh Whale Moves below. How to read this board →

Whale Calls

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Whale Puts

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Just crossed the tape

Fresh Whale Moves

Stocks · buys, sells & new stakes · updated within days · fresh through the week

The fast-moving side of what these same managers are doing — open-market buys, sells, and new or increased 5%+ stakes, each stamped with the date it posted. Unlike Big Money Bets, these land within a few days of the actual move, and new ones show up through the week. Amounts are what was disclosed and can lag the trade by a day or two — context, not a signal. How to read this board →

Coiled springs

Squeeze Watch

short interest · days-to-cover

Names with the highest short interest and days-to-cover — the raw fuel for a short squeeze. ⚠️ Short interest is exchange-reported only twice a month with a delay, so this is a lagged watchlist, not a live borrow-rate feed. High short % of float + high days-to-cover = the most squeeze-prone. How to read this board →

How to read these cards
What's a short squeeze? Traders who bet against a stock (shorts) borrow shares and sell them — if the stock rises instead, they're forced to buy back to cut losses, and that buying pushes the price even higher. It feeds on itself.
% float short — how much of the tradable supply is currently bet against. Over ~15% is high; over 25% is extreme.
Days to cover — at normal trading volume, how many days shorts would need to buy their way out. Higher = a more crowded exit = a bigger pop if they panic.
Score — our 0–100 blend of both: red 70+ = primed, amber 45–69 = warm, gray = mild. The score is fuel, not ignition — a squeeze still needs a spark (news, momentum, a crowd). Don't buy something just because it's hated.
Dealer positioning

Gamma Squeeze

options open interest · call & put walls

The options gamma structure on the most heavily-optioned names: the call wall (heaviest call open interest — an upside magnet where dealers are short gamma) and the put wall (support). Heavy call OI stacked above price with a high call/put ratio = gamma-squeeze fuel. Options OI updates once a day. How to read this board →

How to read these cards
What's a gamma squeeze? When traders pile into call options, the market makers who sold them must buy shares to stay hedged. If the stock rises, they must buy more — their buying pushes the price up, which forces more buying. Same feedback loop as a short squeeze, but powered by options.
Call wall — the strike price holding the most call bets. Price often gets pulled toward it like a magnet; it's the level to watch on the upside.
Put wall — the strike with the most put bets; it often behaves like a floor under the price.
OI & call/put ratio — OI (open interest) is how many option contracts are open. A call/put ratio above ~1.3 with the call wall above the current price = HIGH FUEL; above 1 = BUILDING. Like the squeeze score, fuel isn't a buy signal — it tells you which names can move violently.
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Market Internals

Under the hood of the indexes — what's leading, what's lagging, and where the extremes are.
Where money flows

Sectors

11 S&P sector ETFs

Which parts of the market are leading and lagging today — tech, energy, financials, and so on. Why it matters: you want to trade with the green, not against it. A stock you like sitting in a deep-red sector is swimming upstream.

Today's loudest names

Market Movers

top 20 stock gainers & losers

The day's biggest gainers and losers — top 20 each — in scrollable windows. Why it matters: big moves are where opportunity and risk show up first, so this is your quick read on what's in play right now.

Gainers

Losers

One-glance read

HM5 Watchlist Heat Map

grouped by sector · tile size = size of the move

Every name in the HM5 Universe, grouped into its sector — colored green for up, red for down, and each tile sized by how big today's move is (the bigger the swing, the bigger the box). Why it matters: you see at a glance which sectors are leading or lagging and which names are driving them — a one-glance map of where the money's flowing. A read, never a signal on its own.

At the edges

52-Week Extremes

names near a 1-year high or low

Names hitting their highest or lowest price in a full year. Why it matters: extremes are where trends run out of gas and reverse — exactly the spots the HM5 Spread System hunts for. Each row now shows today's move, the HVR (where its volatility sits in its own 52-week range — high = credit side, low = debit side) and its usual daily swing, so you know how fast the name actually moves before you touch it. Tap the ☆ star on any row to send it to your watchlist.

Near 52-wk High

Near 52-wk Low

Structure first

HM5 Credit / Debit List

ranked by 52-wk volatility (HVR)

The full HM5 Universe — all 142 names — ranked by volatility — HVR, where each name's volatility sits in its own 52-week range (our read on IV Rank). Credit side = rich premium, favor selling spreads (bull put / bear call). Debit side = cheap premium, favor buying spreads (bull call / bear put). Why it matters: the side picks your structure before you even look at direction. Each row shows HV (annualized volatility — how fast the name moves), its usual one-day swing (~±%/day), today's move, and a bar showing where the HVR sits from 0–100. Tap the ☆ star to watchlist any name. How to read this board →

Credit side · sell premium

Debit side · buy premium

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Around the Clock

The market never fully closes — crypto trades 24/7 and often tips its hand before stocks open.
Around the clock

Crypto Desk

live market · bubbles · gainers & losers

A live read on the whole coin market. Why it matters: crypto trades 24/7 and often moves before stocks do, so it's an early gut-check on risk appetite. In the bubble map, bigger bubble = bigger 24-hour move — green up, red down. In the gainers/losers lists, the number on the left is the coin's market-cap rank (#1 = biggest), MC is its total size, and vol (% of cap) is turnover — how much of the coin's entire value traded in 24 hours. A big % move on tiny turnover is noise; on heavy turnover it's real interest. Small-cap coins swing hardest in both directions. How to read this board →

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Crypto Bubbles · 24h movers

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UpDownBubble size = size of the 24-hour move
Top 20 each · all coins by market cap

Crypto Gainers

Crypto Losers

Trending on Reddit · crypto buzz

Mentions · 24h
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On-chain size

Crypto Whale Moves

Crypto · largest transfers & big wallet flows · refreshed through the day

The biggest coin transfers moving right now, plus recent large flows in and out of well-known exchange, treasury and fund wallets. A big transfer is a flow, not a trade — exchange and internal moves are included, and money heading to an exchange often precedes selling while money moving off often means holding. Amounts are approximate and refresh through the day — context, not a signal.

Big Transfers · 24h

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Tracked Wallets

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