Options flow intelligence
Unusual options activity, with the context to read it
Sweeps, blocks and dark pool prints across US stocks and ETFs. The hard part was never seeing the trade. It is knowing whether it was a directional bet, a hedge, one leg of a spread, or a position being closed. ArcAlpha scores every print against the contract’s own history and shows you what the underlying was doing at the time.
$0 due today. Educational analysis, not investment advice.
What you actually see
Flow is only useful when it is scored against something. Every view here is built to answer whether a print is unusual for that contract, not merely large.
Sweeps, blocks and the tape
Large and urgent options trades as they print, with the size, the premium and which side of the market they hit. Outsized blocks are flagged against each ticker’s own baseline rather than a flat dollar threshold, so a quiet name having a loud day is not buried under the usual megacaps.
Dark pool prints
Off-exchange volume with the levels it traded at, so you can see where size changed hands away from the lit market.
Flow against the setup
Whether the options activity agrees with what the underlying chart is doing. A badge on every setup, so flow is read as confirmation or disagreement rather than in isolation.
Earnings context
The implied move against what the stock has actually done after previous prints, plus how the name ranks against its sector peers going in.
The print, and where it landed
A large trade on its own tells you almost nothing. Aperture adds the two things that make one readable: what the stock was structurally doing when it printed, and the map that annotation comes from.
Every print carries the stock’s own state
The full session of notable options prints and share blocks, each tagged with what was true about that name at that moment: sitting at a call wall or a put wall, inside a compression, stacked with or against the trend, or days away from earnings. Options and equity blocks together, lit and off-exchange separated.
And the map those annotations come from
When the tape says a print landed at a put wall, this is where that wall came from. Net gamma by strike with price on the same axis, so the level is read against the book rather than beside it. Two tickers at once, from same-day expiry out to long-dated.
Illustrative views of the platform. Values are examples, not live data or investment advice.
Two ways in
Most people start with Architect. Aperture adds the dealer positioning map for anyone whose work is mostly same-day and index options.
Founding Member pricing is a promotional discount off the standard price. Limited to the first 500 members.
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- ArcFlow institutional flow intelligence
- Sweeps, blocks and dark pool prints
- Earnings intelligence and post-earnings drift
- Congress and insider tracker
- Everything in the Alpha stock plan
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- Everything in Architect, plus:
- The full-session flow tape, options prints and share blocks
- Every print tagged with that stock's structural state
- Same-day (0DTE) positioning, read through the session
- Four lenses: gamma, delta, charm and vanna
- Call wall, put wall and zero-gamma levels
- Replay any stored session, and compare two tickers
- SPX, NDX, SPY, QQQ plus 14 AI and semiconductor names
Before you sign up
What is unusual options activity?
Options trades that stand out against a contract’s own recent history, by size, by urgency, or by how far they sit from the current price. On its own a single large trade tells you very little: it may be a hedge, one leg of a spread, or a position being closed. What makes it readable is context, which is what ArcAlpha adds.
Can I not get options flow for free?
You can get raw flow free or cheaply in several places, and your broker may show some of it. The gap is not access to the prints, it is knowing which of them matter. ArcAlpha scores flow against the contract’s own baseline, shows whether it agrees with the underlying setup, and keeps a record of how those readings resolved.
Does ArcAlpha tell me what to trade?
No. ArcAlpha is an educational market intelligence platform. It produces algorithmic observations that are identical for every subscriber, and it never sends orders or holds funds. You trade through your own broker and make your own decisions.
Which tickers does dealer positioning cover?
The index complex (SPX, NDX, SPY and QQQ) plus fourteen liquid single names across AI, semiconductors, storage and power, including NVDA, AMD, AVGO, MU and META. Options flow and dark pool coverage is far wider and spans US stocks and ETFs generally.
What does it cost to find out?
Seven days, free, with full access and $0 due today. You will see the exact first-charge date at checkout and you can cancel online at any time. After the trial it is the price shown above for the billing period you choose.
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