Introduction to Optionomics
Options intelligence for serious traders
Welcome to Optionomics
Options markets move fast: prints hit the tape, positioning builds at strikes, and volatility shifts across expiries. Optionomics brings that stack into one place—live flow when your plan includes it, positioning and risk charts for today and for history, and optional AI that highlights setups and explains dense metrics in plain language.
You might use the product to prepare for the open, monitor names on your watchlist, research a single stock’s structure, or study how regimes looked in the past. The common thread is visibility: fewer blind spots when you decide what to do next.
Before You Start
Optionomics provides data and analysis, not trading advice. We show you what the tape and our analytics surface; you choose whether and how to trade, hedge, or sit out.
If you are new to options, learn the contract mechanics and risks before using live market data. Start with small, focused workflows and verify what each metric represents.
The Platform at a Glance
Navigation Essentials
| Element | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Watchlist strip | Your pinned watchlist at the top of every page, with live % changes and a switcher for your named lists |
| Search | Find any stock instantly from the top bar |
| Command palette | Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) to jump to any page, saved view, or symbol destination from the keyboard |
| Notifications | Bell icon — real-time alerts, browser notifications, and a shortcut to Manage Alerts |
| Sidebar | Four groups — Today (For You, Markets, Calendar, Stock Workspace, Commentary, Trade Ideas, AI Chat), Tape (Live Flow, Unusual Activity, Dark Pool, Insider & Congress), Research (Historical Lab, Strategy Builder, Backtests), and Desk (Alerts Management, Notifications, Saved Views, Journal, Developer) — with the Terminal launcher, Settings, and Help at the foot |
| For You page | Your personalized dashboard — pick widget tiles, their order, width, and per-tile settings (symbols, lookback, limits) |
| Stock Workspace | Per-symbol workspace — opens via the sidebar or by searching a ticker. The chart, Radar, News, the daily-analytics charts, Historical Lab, Earnings, Insider & Congress, Flow, UOA, Dark Pool, Ideas, and Build all live here as a single tab bar |
| Guided tours | Most major pages offer a step-by-step tour the first time you open them—rerun one anytime from its Tour button |
Three Ways to Analyze
Think of the platform in three layers: what is printing right now, where positioning and volatility sit today, and how those measures behaved over years when you zoom out.
1. Options Flow — What’s Trading Now
Flow is the pulse of the options market: aggressive sweeps, negotiated blocks, size versus open interest, and unusual prints that do not look like everyday hedging. When your subscription includes live flow, you can watch the tape as trades occur, filter and sort, and cross-link to a symbol’s deeper tools.
You will also find Unusual Activity (highlighted prints worth a second look), dark pool equity context where available, a flow chart that overlays activity on price, and the Terminal for a multi-panel workflow aimed at active sessions.
→ Deeper tour: Options Flow · Unusual Activity · Dark Pool Trades · Terminal
2. Daily Analytics — Today’s Positioning (on the Stock Workspace)
Daily analytics answer structural questions for the selected session: where open interest and modeled exposure concentrate, how implied volatility varies by strike (skew) and expiry (term structure), and where premium and volume are distributed. These charts are built for one symbol at a time so you can connect recent flow with the chain snapshot.
All of them live on the Stock Workspace as tabs—open the Stock Workspace from the sidebar (or search any symbol) and walk the tab bar: Gamma · Delta · Premium · Volume · Skew · Term · Vol Surface · Heatmap, alongside Chart, Radar, News, and the other plan-dependent tabs.
→ Hub overview: Daily Analytics · Stock Workspace tour
3. Historical Lab - Patterns Over Time
The Historical Lab lets you select available measures from a searchable library and compare them on one timeline. Use standardized or native scales, add price candles, review statistics and correlations, and inspect the dated source observations behind every study.
→ Guide: Historical Lab
AI Features
On Theta and Vega, AI is available in several different shapes—some are on-demand (you click), some run in the background (scoring and feeds), and some are conversational. Together they reduce friction when charts are new to you or when the tape is too wide to read line by line.
- AI Insights (✨) — Click the sparkle on the daily-analytics tiles and charts, or the Historical Lab’s snapshot cards, for a plain-language readout of what you are looking at, grounded in that screen’s context.
- AI Assistant — A conversational assistant at AI Chat with tools over live market data, flow, news, and your watchlist; answers are educational, not personalized trade instructions.
- AI Market Briefing — A market briefing at the top of Market Overview that summarizes the tape and suggests what to look at next.
- Trade Ideas — A feed of single-name setups: direction, strategy label, entry/target/stop style levels, optional explanation and confidence—built for quick scanning and follow-up research.
- Live Market Commentary — A market-wide narrative feed: short posts when flow, sentiment, or volatility meaningfully shift, with categories and severity so you can filter noise.
- Earnings Analysis — AI-generated summaries, highlights and risks, reported metrics versus estimates, forward guidance, and financial charts when the required filing data is available.
→ Full page with access paths: Artificial Intelligence
Who Uses Optionomics?
| You Are | You’ll Use |
|---|---|
| Day Trader | Live flow and unusual activity, Terminal, alerts management, optional trade ideas and market commentary on Theta/Vega |
| Swing Trader | Daily analytics, positioning and skew changes across sessions, Unusual Activity for candidate discovery, and watchlist for a focused set of names |
| Options Seller | IV level, term structure, and the volatility surface; gamma exposure for modeled exposure context; the Strategy Builder to model premium-selling structures before placing them |
| Strategy Designer | The Strategy Builder for multi-leg P&L diagrams, Greeks, breakevens, and price/IV/time simulation |
| Researcher | The Historical Lab, repeated patterns in volatility and sentiment, disclosures, and the Earnings tab for fundamental context |
| Algo Trader | REST API and MCP on Vega, optional backtesting workflows |
On the Go
The iOS app includes the Today digest, the live tape, stock research, alerts, a mobile Terminal, Ideas, Commentary, the AI Assistant, the calendar, push delivery, an iPad split-view layout, home-screen widgets, and an Apple Watch app. Use the web app when you want the full three-column Terminal, Historical Lab, Strategy Builder, or Backtesting.
Getting Help
- Docs: You’re reading them
- In-App: The help menu in the top bar links to the in-app help center (
/help), the plain-English glossary, and this documentation; (?) icons throughout the platform deep-link to the right page - Guided tours: Most major pages offer a first-visit tour you can rerun anytime
- AI: Click ✨ on daily-analytics and Historical Lab panels (Theta/Vega)
- Email: [email protected]
Next Steps
- Choose your plan
- Browse the Feature Guide and choose a starting workflow
- Tour the Stock Workspace and its daily-analytics tabs
- Save a focused Options Flow view or create an alert
Remember: We provide data and analysis tools—not trading advice. Options involve substantial risk. Do your own research.
