Option Surfer
How to Use Option Surfer to Track Real-Time Option Flow?
Ayesha Ameen
Last Update a year ago
Discover how Option Surfer enables you to monitor aggressive option activity with clear visuals and natural insights.
Option Surfer introduces a smart tracking system for real-time and historical options data. It’s a must-have tool for anyone tracking institutional behavior in the options market. It filters aggressive trades using embedded logic and presents key contract flows in a clean dashboard. The Option Surfer Chart in Flowtopia is designed to help users analyze real-time option flow with clarity and precision. Here's what each component means:
SPY Price vs Call/Put Comparison: This chart allows you to visualize SPY price movements alongside call and put volumes, making it easier to understand directional market bias within Flowtopia.
Real-Time Trade & Momentum Tracking: Tracks all real-time trades within the selected ticker and highlights momentum shifts or potential reversal zones, giving you actionable market behavior insights.
Net Premium Display: Shows net premium data (calls minus puts) for the selected ticker, helping you interpret sentiment and activity directly through the Flowtopia interface.
Live Calls & Puts Visualization: All call and put trades are plotted live on the chart in Flowtopia, enabling users to monitor aggressive moves and overall flow trends instantly.
Ticker Filtering Option: You can filter the chart by specific tickers to focus on individual stocks. This helps streamline your analysis and avoid noise from unrelated data.
Analyze the Key Insights: Option Surfer provides live and historical data in a clean chart format, including:
- Live feed of the largest premium trades
- Net premium flow trends (visualized by time)
- Top active strike prices with OI spikes
Here's how to use it:
- Access the Option Surfer Chart from the Flowtopia Dashboard: Open the main Flowtopia dashboard and scroll to the section labeled Option Surfer; it’s already integrated within the dashboard layout, so no need to navigate elsewhere.
- Use the filter tool to refine data: Use the search bar to find specific tickers. Where a ticker focuses on individual stocks.
By using Option Surfer, you save time and gain clarity, with no need for manual filtering or switching tools. It’s designed to make complex options data simple to understand and act on
