Options Recon
The Daily Top 5, the levels, when it updates
20 questions about Options Recon
How do I open Options Recon?Sign in to your members area with the email you paid with and open Options Recon in the menu on the left. It opens inside the members area, already signed in: there is no separate password or link to keep.
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Why does Options Recon show yesterday's session?The board runs on end-of-day data: after the close it reads the whole session and posts that session's Top 5 in the evening. During the day you see the previous session's cards.
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Why does Options Recon show Friday's session on the weekend and on Monday?The board always shows the last finished session, and it posts each one in the evening after the close. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday during the day that is still Friday's; Monday's cards arrive Monday evening.
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How do I read an Options Recon card?Each card is one big one-sided options bet: the ticker, CALL or PUT, the strike (or strikes), the expiry and the days left, how far the strikes sit from the price, the score, and the money behind it.
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What does the Options Recon score mean?Every card is scored 0 to 100 on four things: how one-sided the money is, how much came in single large orders, its size, and how aggressive the strike is for the time left. 80+ is Extreme, 60+ Strong, 40+ Moderate; under 40 is never shown.
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Why does one ticker show a call card and a put card?Each ticker and expiry is judged on its own. The money on one expiry can lean to calls while another expiry leans to puts, so the same ticker can show both, each with its own expiry.
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Does Options Recon have a win rate?No. Options Recon calls no trades (no entry, no exit, no stop), so it has no win rate. It finds and scores the biggest one-sided bets on the options tape.
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How does Options Recon tell a real bet from a hedge or a spread?It keeps only aggressive, one-sided money: big orders, put back together from their small prints, on one side by at least 2 to 1. Two strikes traded together as a spread are found on the tape and their dollars are left out.
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What do "vs open interest", "new strikes", "strikes hit" and "sweep-confirmed" mean?Vs open interest compares the session's volume with the contracts that existed before it: 3× or more is unusual. New strikes means none existed before. Strikes hit is how many strikes took the money. Sweep-confirmed means a buyer took every contract across exchanges at once.
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How do I trade an Options Recon card? Where is the entry and the exit?Options Recon gives no entry, exit or stop: it shows where the biggest one-sided money went. If a card fits how you trade, look up that exact contract (ticker, strike, expiry, call or put) at your broker and decide your own plan.
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Why are there fewer than 5 cards today?Because only that many bets cleared the bar. On a quiet day the board shows fewer than 5: three real signals beat five padded ones, so nothing below a score of 40 is added to fill it.
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Where can I see the Top 5 from earlier days?The board shows one session, the latest. On Terminal, Order Flow's "Show history" goes back through earlier sessions with the overnight verdict on every order, and Aggregate has a history window for who keeps coming back to a name.
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What do "partial" and "chain truncated" mean on a card?The data pull for that ticker hit a size limit, so some inputs may be missing. It happens on very large options chains. The score is still worked out and the card is real; the flag just tells you.
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What do the Options Recon levels include?Level 1 is the Daily Top 5. Level 2, Active Scanner, adds every signal, the filters, Market Overview and the Screener. Level 3, Terminal, adds Order Flow with the overnight verdicts, Aggregate and the heat maps.
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What is Market Overview on Options Recon?On Active Scanner and Terminal: the whole session's big-order money on one screen: how many signals qualified, the contracts, the total premium, the call and put split, the new strikes, and the tickers drawing the most money.
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How do I use the Options Recon Screener?On Active Scanner and Terminal: the raw unusual flow behind the board, contract by contract. Filter by minimum premium (from 10 thousand dollars up to a million) and calls or puts, and sort by premium, volume, expiry or Vol/OI.
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What do "Position opened" and "Churned intraday" mean in Order Flow?Order Flow (Terminal) lists every order behind every signal with what happened overnight. Position opened: open interest rose, so the size was kept. Churned intraday: it traded back out the same day. Awaiting: the verdict comes tomorrow morning.
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What are Aggregate and Ticker Search on Options Recon?Both are on Terminal. Aggregate is the money map by ticker: total big-order money, orders, which way it leans, the biggest and latest order. Ticker Search shows any symbol's whole options picture, with a heat map of where the money sits.
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Is Options Recon the same as the Options Flow Scanner? What happened to the old one?Options Recon is our options flow dashboard, in the members area. "OPTIONS FLOW SCANNER" is also the name on every Find Better Trades card charge. Everything you hold opens from the menu on the left.
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When will Options Recon show live, intraday data?We are working on the live intraday feed. Until it is in place the board runs on end-of-day data, posted each evening. When it changes, the board, its guide and this article will say so. There is no date yet.
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