Software Sunday: You asked for an Option Flow API — it's live, and it doesn't cost a fortune

Follow-up to last week's post. The most common comment by far was "is there an API?" There is now.

TL;DR: pve.trade's full REST + WebSocket API is live. 63 endpoints, 100,000 requests/day, real-time streaming with server side filters. $49/mo billed annually and that price includes the whole Pro dashboard, not just the API.

For comparison, Unusual Whales' published API pricing is roughly $375/mo for REST + WebSocket at the same 100K/day quota, and about $150/mo for REST-only at 40K/day.

What you can pull

Everything the platform runs on, same data, same classifications:

Options flow — the live OPRA tape, classified per print (sweep / block / split / multi, aggressor side). Filter on premium, size, DTE, moneyness, fill side, sector, market cap. Plus 90 days of historical flow with the same filters.

Per-contract history — flow, intraday series, volume-by-price, expiry breakdown, and a trade-stance ranking that shows what's being bought vs sold into aggressively.

Gamma & greeks — dealer gamma by strike and expiration with gamma flip, call wall, put wall. Same grid toggles to DEX, vanna, charm, theta.

Volatility — IV surfaces and term structure.

Research — SEC Form 4 insider filings, congress trades, 13F institutional holdings, earnings, macro/Fed data, per-ticker stock reference.

Market-wide — sector and ticker rotation, market breadth.

Streaming

WebSocket at wss://api.pve.trade/ws. Filters are applied server-side — you subscribe with your criteria (tickers, min premium, trade type, right) and only get matching prints, instead of pulling the whole tape and filtering on your end.

Limits

100,000 requests/day, 10/sec burst.

Pricing

$49/mo billed annually ($588/yr) — API + the full Pro dashboard

$80/mo monthly — API + Pro. Already on Pro? It's +$41/mo added to your plan

$59/mo — API only, monthly, if you don't want the dashboard

Get Started: https://pve.trade/developer

u/samvarr — 18 days ago

Software Sunday: Unusual Whales Alternative

TL;DR: I built pve.trade, an Unusual Whales alternative. Costs less, has an actually free tier with real delayed flow, and pushes individual prints straight to your Discord. Also tracks whether a big trade got closed and at what P/L.

What's in it:

Option Flow: live OPRA tape, classified per trade. Filter by premium, size, DTE, moneyness, fill side, sector, market cap, flags. Save presets, pick your columns. Plus Flow Overview for ticker/sector rotation and full Historical Flow with the same filters.

Gamma (GEX): dealer gamma heatmap by strike and expiration with the gamma flip, call wall, and put wall marked, price-anchored heat zones over candles, and a gamma scanner. Toggle the same grid to DEX, vanna, charm, or theta.

Alerts: build a rule, get it in Discord. Individual options prints as they hit the tape, plus scheduled gamma cards at open/midday/power hour, insider filings, congress trades, earnings signals, and news.

Market News: real-time headlines and intel feeds tied to tickers.

Research: SEC insider filings, congress trades, 13F holdings, earnings calendar with the flow that ran into each print, Macro & Fed (rates, inflation, labor, housing, FOMC/CPI countdowns, rate cut odds from prediction markets), and per-ticker Stock Lookup with fundamentals, analyst consensus, and next earnings estimates.

What UW doesn't have:

Closure detection: matched exit print, realized P/L %, confidence score, and an Open/Closed/Expired filter on historical flow.

Dealer positioning past gamma: DEX, vanna, charm, and theta on the same heatmap.

• Macro dashboard with prediction market odds.

Pricing:
Free: Limited delayed insider flow only
Standard: $12/mo, Full delayed option flow + all features
Pro: $19/mo ( if paid annually ) or $39/mo, Real time option flow + all features

Here to answer any questions!

u/samvarr — 25 days ago

Someone turned $28k into $587k with 2DTE META calls

This mf slammed $28k into META 645 calls with TWO DAYS TO EXPIRY.

This was before news came out of the model release, it was damn near 10% move on a $1.7 trillion dollar stock. WHO BETS ON A $170B ADDED TO MARKET CAP IN 2 DAYS.

SOMEONE GIVE ME THE INSIDER TRADING LOOT.

u/samvarr — 1 month ago
▲ 11 r/LexusGX550+1 crossposts

Looking for a US-made (or reputable) roof light like this for the GX550

I’m trying to find a roof light setup for my GX550 that has this look, but I’d rather avoid generic AliExpress or no-name Chinese brands.

Does anyone know of a US-made or well-known manufacturer that makes something similar?

u/samvarr — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/AncientCoins+1 crossposts

Mehmed II era coins minted in conquered Constantinople. Prices climbing?

Caught this at Heritage Europe / MPO Auction 90, Lot 9595: Mehmed II "the Conqueror" Altin Sultani, Qustantiniyya mint, AH 882, first year of issue. 3.53g, XF. Started at 1,500 EUR, hammered at 10,000 EUR, roughly 11,600 USD before fees.

This is the first gold coin the Ottomans ever struck, introduced in 1477–78 to Venetian ducat standard and minted in Constantinople, the city Mehmed took in 1453 to end the Eastern Roman Empire.

On supply I couldn't find a published survival census, so I won't pretend to one. How rare are they really? I don't see them at auction often.

A comparably historic Roman gold coin, not the untouchable trophies like the EID MAR aureus or the big medallions but an obtainable historic aureus, runs six figures. An Allectus aureus bid near 700k, a Mark Antony aureus 336k. Meanwhile a first year, first ever Ottoman gold coin tied to the fall of Constantinople clears at 11.6k.

The Islamic market is far smaller than the Roman one, and that explains most of the gap. But for what this coin actually is, the genesis of an entire empire's gold coinage struck by the Conqueror in the old Roman capital, 11.6k feels low. Feels like these are undervalued and creeping up as more collectors notice

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u/Then_Marionberry_259 — 2 months ago
▲ 13 r/LexusGX

My GX550 Pre-Collision System slammed the brakes in the middle of an intersection and almost got me hit by a bus

Had a pretty insane experience today in my GX550 2026 Premium+. I was stopped at an intersection where I could either go straight or left. Traffic was coming from the right, and I had enough time to go. As soon as I committed and accelerated, the car flashed “BRAKE!” and the pre-collision/intersection assist completely cut throttle and slammed on the brakes.

It stopped me directly in front of an oncoming bus. Literally the exact thing it was supposedly trying to prevent. Gas pedal was completely unresponsive for like 2 seconds cause it cut the throttle.

If it had just let me continue, I would’ve cleared it. Instead, the system froze me in front of oncoming traffic.

Has anyone else had this happen in a GX550 or newer Lexus/Toyota Safety Sense vehicle?

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u/samvarr — 2 months ago
▲ 11 r/TurkicHistory+1 crossposts

Any Y-DNA on Ottoman paternal kin/Kayı line?

The Ottomans claimed descent from the Kayı branch of the Oğuz Turks. When Ertuğrul and Osman were uç beys, they presumably had paternal kin — brothers, cousins, extended relatives from the same tribal group.

I'm curious what became of those collateral lines:

  • Are there families today with a credible claim to share a paternal ancestor with the House of Osman?
  • Where might those kin have ended up? Did they settle and become part of the local sedentary population (Manav?), or stay nomadic and dissolve into the Yörük groups of western Anatolia? Or scatter across the Balkans?
  • Has any Y-DNA work been done? Is there even a known haplogroup/profile for the Ottoman dynasty to compare against?
  • How would you verify such a claim — Y DNA, tahrir registers, vakıf records, oral tradition?

Not asking about the akıncı families (Mihaloğulları, Evrenosoğulları etc.), since those weren't necessarily Kayı blood. I mean actual paternal kin of the founding line. Curious whether this has ever been researched or if the trail just goes cold.

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u/samvarr — 2 months ago
▲ 5 r/iranfirst+1 crossposts

Should the Organization of Turkic States Become a Turkic NATO?

Meaning an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all, with formal military coordination, joint exercises, intelligence sharing, and mutual defense obligations.

Given the growing geopolitical importance of Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and potentially stronger integration in the future, wouldn't this make the Turkic world more secure and strategically independent?

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u/ayatoilet — 2 months ago

Long term effects of daily driving a 992 through NE winters?

Winters mean salted roads, slush, snow, and brutal cold for a solid 4 months.

For anyone who's done this long term, what should I actually expect? Worried about underbody/suspension corrosion, brake and fastener rust, wheel pitting, and whether the cold does anything nasty to the PDK or seals over time. Is regular undercarriage washing enough to keep it from rotting?

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u/samvarr — 2 months ago

MRVL CFO sells $60M, half his stake → whale buys $410K in puts 3DTE

Someone dropped $410K on $MRVL puts at $287.5 expiring in 3 days. Nobody YOLOs almost half a mil into short dated puts like that unless they're sitting on something lmfao

And after market closes the CFO filing came out that he's dumping 207,329 shares. That's 48% of his entire position. $60 MILLION worth. Marked "unscheduled" too, so this wasn't some routine pre planned sale.

Insider unloads half his stake + a whale loads $410K in puts on the same name in the same week? Yeah. Someone obv knew. This market is cooked.

u/samvarr — 2 months ago

Any high mileage 992s here?

Curious to hear from owners who've put real miles on their 992. Looking at the long term ownership picture specifically what to expect after CPO ends.

A few things I'm trying to get a feel for:

  • How has the car held up past 30k miles? Past 50k? Any major issues?
  • What does maintenance actually cost out of warranty? Brake jobs, services, anything unexpected?
  • Anything you wish you knew before going out of CPO coverage?
  • Has reliability been what you expected from a modern 911?
  • Any recurring issues (electrical, suspension, anything pattern-wise) at higher mileage?

For context I have a 2021 Carrera 4 at 22k miles, CPO expires in 5-6 months. Trying to decide if it's worth holding onto longer or making a move now. Appreciate any real world insight from people who've actually lived with these past the warranty period.

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u/samvarr — 2 months ago

Would these Methods need anything besides a Wescott lift?

Want to go with the 0 offset config and some 35s with the Wescott Designs 2.5 inch lift. Want to make sure I don't need to do any trimming.

u/samvarr — 2 months ago

Is this true?

Asking because I saw a post about why a majority of Albanians are Muslim and the top comment is about saving on taxes.

u/samvarr — 3 months ago

TL;DR on why Bitcoin is going to ZERO

“Michael, so you own 5% of all Bitcoin & decided you were going to sell some to test the liquidity?"

“That’s correct Dave.”

“And you did this immediately after using up your cash to buy back debt at an 8% discount?”

“I did, Dave.”

“So when you actually did what you said you were going to do, the liquidity test didn't go well?”

“Sadly true, Dave.”

"And you only sold 32 BTC, even though you knew that wouldn't be enough to cover the next year of dividend payments?"

"Yes, Dave."

"So in the process of selling BTC to try & save the Stretch dividend , you ended up killing BTC, Stretch, & MSTR?"

"I'm kind've retarded Dave."

u/samvarr — 3 months ago

Why were Turkic people able to build so many powerful empires across Eurasia?

Looking at history, it seems like Turkic dynasties and states appeared almost everywhere across Eurasia for nearly a thousand years from the Göktürks and Seljuks to the Ottomans, Mughals, Timurids, various Central Asian khanates, etc.

What allowed Turkic people to repeatedly found large and militarily successful empires across such a huge geographic area?

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u/samvarr — 3 months ago

In 20k of USO puts because 150 dollar oil is fking stupid

Oil was $69 in fucking January. Only reason it's at $150 is because of our regard POTUS.

Every oil spike in history has retraced. Gulf War, Iraq War, even the Russia Ukraine spike. Big money's been positioning short into leaps because its kind of fucking obvious.

The trade is simple, war ends eventually and big head Trump tacos. Worst case I lose $20k and we're all in a recession anyways. BASE case IMO I make $50k+ because oil HAS to come down or we're all going to STARVE.

Fuck Iran, fuck Israel, fuck OPEC, fuck $5 gas, and fuck you for not calling Trumps bluff.

USO 12/15/28 $80P

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

tailing this shit

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u/samvarr — 3 months ago