TSLA net premium hit $106M bullish into close today despite the stock being down. $445 put sweep at 44.7x Vol/OI, institutions selling puts, they don't think it goes lower. Trade idea from a tool I built: Buy $418/$440 call spread exp May 29. Entry $4.50, target $8, stop $2.25. Tracking it live.
Been trading options for a while and kept running into the same problem. Flow scanners show you a $27M call sweep on Visa and leave you to figure out if it's a real directional bet or just someone hedging a short position.
Got tired of guessing so I built my own.
Free to use at https://flowdesk-iota-ten.vercel.app, no signup needed to see the live feed.
What it does differently from raw flow tools:
Click any sweep or block and the AI tells you whether it looks directional, hedging, closing or misleading. Gives you a conviction score, what price levels to watch, and a specific trade idea when the signals are strong enough.
Real example from this week. Saw a $27.82M call sweep on Visa. Looked bullish on the surface. AI flagged it bearish. Deep ITM strike, low vol/OI, net premium for the day was $27M bearish despite mostly calls trading. Classic hedge on a short position.
Another one. TSLA up 3.89% Friday but net premium hit $46M bearish into close. Smart money was fading the move the whole day.
Also built a signal checklist that runs before any trade idea gets generated. Checks 6 things: 3 day flow trend, market context, price trend, OI change, IV rank, and COT positioning. Only surfaces a trade idea when at least 5 of 6 signals agree. Learned this the hard way after putting on a MU bear call spread based on one day of bearish flow and watching it rip 3.7% the next morning.
Everything is free. No credit card needed. Just go to https://flowdesk-iota-ten.vercel.app and the live feed loads immediately.
For updates DM me on Reddit.
Genuinely curious how others here use flow in their trading and what context matters most to you.
Been trading options for a while and always struggled to make sense of flow data. Kept seeing large call sweeps and assuming bullish. Got burned enough times that I decided to build my own scanner so I could actually study what was happening.
Been running it for a few weeks now and it's changed how I read flow completely.
Two trades from this week that stuck with me.
Saw a $27.82M call sweep on Visa. My first instinct was bullish. But looking at it more closely the strike was deep ITM, vol/OI was low, and net premium for the whole day was $27M bearish despite mostly calls trading. Classic hedge on a short position. Would have got it completely wrong before.
Then TSLA Friday. Stock ran 3.89% and looked strong all day. But my scanner was showing $62M bearish flow vs $16M bullish the whole time. Net premium hit $46M bearish into close. No idea yet if that plays out Monday but it was a pretty clear divergence between price and where the money was actually going.
Few things I now check before acting on any sweep:
Strike vs current price. Deep ITM usually means hedge not a bet.
Vol/OI ratio. Above 5x means someone opened this fresh with urgency. Below 0.5x is usually rolling or adding to something existing.
Net premium over time. One sweep means nothing. Same ticker getting hit repeatedly on the same side throughout the day is more interesting.
Sweep vs block. Sweep means someone needed in across multiple exchanges fast. Block is one large print, could just be rebalancing.
Still learning and probably getting things wrong. Curious how others here actually use flow in their trading.