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Long-TermMonths+
Buy and hold quality. Follow what the smart money is accumulating, collect dividends.
Your tools
The playbook
- Start from quality. Open Long Term Value. Sort by quality score or pick a starter basket (Top Quality, Dividend Safety, Mega-Cap Compounders).
- Read the deep dive. On a name's Long-Term page, check fundamentals, the quality grade, dividend safety, and smart-money ownership before buying.
- Corroborate with smart money. Insider Activity and Politician Trades show whether informed buyers are accumulating the same names — corroboration, not gospel.
- Plan income. Use the Dividends calendar to time entries around ex-dates and build a dividend ladder over months.
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Long-Term — Buy & Hold Quality, Follow the Smart Money
Who this is for: Investors building positions over months to years — quality compounders, dividend income, and value — using TD Pro to find what informed buyers are accumulating and to time entries around dividends. The slowest, most forgiving path; the work is selection and patience, not timing.
The workflow
- Start from quality. Open Long Term Value and sort by quality score, or pick a starter basket — Top Quality, Dividend Safety, Cheap Quality, or Mega-Cap Compounders — so you're not staring at a blank screen.
- Read the deep dive. On a name's Long Term Value page, check the quality score and grade, the fundamentals (P/E, debt, margins), dividend safety, and smart-money ownership before buying. The same suitability checklist that vets a wheel candidate vets a long-term hold.
- Corroborate with informed buyers. Cross-check against Insider Activity — especially cluster buys, where several insiders buy the same name — and Politician Trades. It's corroboration, not gospel, but informed buyers accumulating the same quality name is a meaningful tell.
- Plan income around dividends. Use the Dividend Calendar (60-day forward ex-dates) to time entries and build a dividend ladder over months. Remember you must own the shares before the ex-date to receive the dividend.
- Optional leverage via LEAPS. For a more capital-efficient position, the LEAPS scanner finds long-dated calls that act as a buy-and-hold proxy — more leverage, defined risk, no margin. More complex than owning shares.
Before you buy — the checklist
- Strong quality score and grade on the Long Term Value page
- Fundamentals you understand (reasonable valuation, manageable debt)
- Dividend safety acceptable, if you're buying for income
- Smart-money or insider corroboration (nice to have, not required)
- Entry timed sensibly against the ex-dividend date, if income matters
Mindset
- This path ignores the intraday noise that drives the other four. The market regime — VIX, rotation, overall conditions — is context for when to add, not a reason to trade in and out.
- A name being "down today" is not a thesis change for a multi-month hold. Re-check the quality page, not the ticker tape.
First steps
- Open Long Term Value and pick one starter basket.
- Open a name's deep-dive page and read its suitability checklist.
- Add two names to your watchlist to track over time.
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.