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0DTESame day
Trade expiration-day options off dealer positioning. Fast, mechanical, levels-driven.
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The playbook
- Check the market weather. Look at SPY/QQQ on the GEX page. Above the gamma flip = calm, dips bought (favor calls). Below = volatile, drops fast (favor puts).
- Find the magnet. On Apex Levels, find the dominant magnet (score 100) — price gets pulled toward it. That's your target.
- Enter at a wall. Buy calls at a heavy Apex line just below price; buy puts at a heavy line just above. Don't chase mid-range.
- Re-verify every 15 min. Apex levels refresh every 15 minutes. If your support disappears, the institutions moved — cut and reassess.
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0DTE — Same-Day Options
Who this is for: Traders playing expiration-day (0–1 DTE) options on indexes and fast movers, working off dealer positioning and Apex levels. Fast, mechanical, and levels-driven — the highest-skill path on the platform. The levels give you an edge; they don't replace price-action discipline.
⚠️ 0DTE options decay by the hour. A bad entry can't be "held back to even." Size small, define your exit before you enter, and treat the levels as the plan: when the level breaks, the trade is over.
The workflow
- Check the market weather first. Before any ticker, pull SPY/QQQ on the Futures GEX page. Is price above or below the gamma flip line? Above = dealers buy dips, calmer tape, favor calls. Below = negative gamma, dealers amplify moves, drops come fast, favor puts. Then check the aggregate Apex view for a dominant magnet (score 100) — it pulls the whole index toward it.
- Let the morning settle. The cleanest 0DTE reads come after the morning's big money has chosen a direction — not at the 9:30 bell. Apex levels refresh about every 15 minutes; let them stabilize before you commit.
- Trade the level, not the move. On the ticker's Apex chart in single-expiry (today's) view, find the heavy wall just below price (your call floor) or just above it (your put ceiling). Enter at the wall; target the next dominant magnet. Don't chase price through open space.
- Re-verify constantly. If your support wall disappears or jumps away, the institutions have moved their money — the plan is broken, so cut it. On a violent macro move, re-pull the levels before doing anything.
Futures (NQ / MNQ)
- Use the Futures GEX calculator for ES/NQ levels. You can also draw QQQ Apex levels onto an NQ chart with a QQQ→NDX→NQ converter — QQQ's Apex data tracks the index closely.
- Converter levels are accurate during New York market hours and drift when the market is closed (options don't trade pre-market, so GEX reflects prior-session structure until the 9:30 open).
- MNQ is one-tenth the size of NQ (same price, one-tenth the tick value) — the lower-risk way to learn the level reads with real money on the line. Mind round-trip fees on small moves.
Before you enter — the checklist
- Index above or below the gamma flip identified (calls vs. puts bias)
- A clear Apex wall to enter against, with a magnet as the target
- Taken after the morning's money settled, not on the open
- Liquid contract with a tight bid-ask — 0DTE spreads punish you
- Hard stop set; position sized so a same-day total loss is survivable
Common mistakes
- Chasing the move instead of entering at a level.
- Holding a decaying 0DTE "until it comes back."
- Trading index 0DTE through a macro headline without re-verifying levels.
- Entering right before a weekend or a level-invalidating event.
First steps
- Open the GEX page and note today's SPY gamma flip level.
- Search a liquid ticker (SPY, NVDA) and turn on Apex Levels.
- Watch the Heat Map for one session before risking size.
All walkthrough videos
Quick tutorials for every key page on TraderDaddy Pro.
Core Flow Tools
Unusual Activity
The main feed of institutional options flow — every alert that scores 85+ is surfaced here in real time. Learn how to read the flow table, understand pattern types, and filter by sentiment to spot where big money is positioning.
Live Flow
Real-time unusual options activity updated every 30 seconds — the raw firehose of institutional positioning. This tutorial covers the four pattern types (Golden Sweep, Sweep, Block, Split), color-coded sentiment, and how to use flow to build a directional thesis.
Watchlist
Build and manage lists of tickers you're tracking — get a live snapshot of price, unusual-activity score, and recent flow alerts for every name on your watchlist. Learn how to organize multiple themed lists, set Discord DM alert floors, and use the watchlist as a personal deal-flow triage layer.
Ticker Search
Enter any symbol to see its full history of detected unusual activity, filterable by date range, contract type, pattern type, and score. Learn how to identify institutional accumulation patterns versus one-off noise by reading flow clusters on the price chart.
Flow Analysis
Heat Map
Ranks every ticker by institutional urgency — giving you a real-time visual of where the heaviest, most aggressive options flow is concentrating. Learn how to sort by urgency score, premium, and flow count to surface the highest-conviction names each session.
Sector Flow
Monitors unusual options activity aggregated across the 11 GICS sector ETFs (XLK, XLF, XLE, etc.) so you can see where institutional money is rotating at the macro level — often 1–2 days ahead of price. This tutorial walks through the sentiment score, divergence plays, and how to confirm individual stock setups with sector tailwind.
Market Health
A 7-signal confluence dashboard that tells you the current market regime at a glance — are conditions trending, ranging, or risk-off? Learn how to read each signal, what the composite regime score means for your strategy, and how the sector-rotation playbook guides which setups to favor in each phase.
Futures GEX Calculator
Gamma Exposure (GEX) reveals the structural forces acting on price by showing how much market makers must buy or sell to stay delta-neutral. This tutorial explains positive vs. negative GEX regimes, how to use GEX walls as support/resistance, and the critical Gamma Flip level.
Earnings Flow Scanner
Shows pre-earnings options positioning for upcoming reporting companies — so you can see whether institutional money is loading calls or puts before the report. Learn how to read the expected move, compare pre-earnings flow to historical outcomes, and size your risk around binary events.
Signal Scanners
Breaking Out Momentum
A daily-updated scanner that surfaces stocks triggering breakout and bullish continuation signals from the TraderDaddy detection engine. Learn how to read the signal cards, what each signal type means, and how to cross-reference with unusual flow before entering a trade.
Breaking Out Triangle
A daily scanner for descending-triangle setups — converging price structure with a flat support floor and a falling resistance ceiling. Learn to read the compression, the support touches, and the apex timing, and how a confirmed close above the upper line resolves the pattern.
Reversal Finder
Scans the entire ticker universe daily using a 7-component Dumb Money composite score to find stocks that are statistically stretched — potential tops for selling Covered Calls and potential bottoms for selling Cash-Secured Puts. This tutorial covers each indicator component and how to combine the signal with GEX for higher conviction.
Earnings Gap Finder
A daily scanner (run at 9:45 AM ET) that identifies stocks gapping significantly after earnings reports. Learn how to filter by gap size and direction, understand which gaps are likely to fill vs. continue, and use the tool to find early-session momentum setups.