Your Path
Pick how you trade and follow the playbook built for it.
SwingDays–weeks
Position with the institutions over days to weeks. Follow the accumulation footprint.
Your tools
The playbook
- Pick the right sector. Open Sector Flow. For a swing, look for a sector that stays green for consecutive days — sustained rotation, not a one-day pop.
- Find the name. Use Breaking Out for momentum or Reversal Finder for a bounce setup. Earnings Flow surfaces names being accumulated before a catalyst.
- Use Apex aggregate levels. On Ticker Search, set Apex to Aggregate mode — it blends the next several expirations to show the heavy walls that hold over days/weeks.
- Manage around the weekly. Holding overnight, check the upcoming Friday expiration. If a big wall builds against you, secure gains instead of waiting for the long target.
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Swing — Days to Weeks, With the Institutions
Who this is for: Traders holding for days to weeks, following the institutional accumulation footprint rather than intraday noise. Aggregate Apex levels — which blend several expirations — are built for exactly this horizon.
The workflow
- Pick the right sector. Open Sector Flow. For a swing, look for a sector that stays green for consecutive days, not one that popped for a few minutes — sustained rotation is the signal.
- Find the name. Use Breaking Out for momentum continuation or Reversal Finder for a bounce setup. Earnings Flow surfaces names being accumulated ahead of a catalyst (with EARLY / THESIS / LATE / IMMINENT windows), and Earnings Gap catches post-earnings movers with follow-through.
- Use Apex in Aggregate mode. On Ticker Search, set Apex to Aggregate — it blends the next several expirations to show the heavy walls that hold over days and weeks (large blocks of capital that don't move on a 15-minute flicker). For a call swing, find the heavy aggregate line below price (your floor) and target the dominant magnet above; for a put swing, the heavy line above price (your ceiling) with magnets below as the target.
- Confirm conviction with flow. A swing-worthy flow signal is large premium ($500K+), 30+ DTE, out-of-the-money, aligned with SPY, on a name above its gamma flip — the same filter as day trading, but you're holding the thesis out. The Conviction Gauge rolls flow and watchlist signals into a single read when you want a second opinion.
- Manage around the weekly clock. Holding overnight, check the upcoming Friday expiration in single-expiry view. If a heavy short-term wall builds against your position, secure gains rather than waiting for the long target. You don't need to watch every flicker — a deliberate check at the open and the close is enough.
Before you enter — the checklist
- Sector green for consecutive days (rotation, not a one-day blip)
- Name confirmed by a scanner (Breaking Out / Reversal Finder / Earnings Flow)
- Aggregate Apex floor or ceiling identified, with a magnet target
- Flow conviction: $500K+, 30+ DTE, OTM, SPY-aligned, above the gamma flip
- A plan for the nearest Friday wall before holding overnight
Risk notes
- Weekend news can invalidate Apex levels. Be cautious carrying Apex-based swings over a weekend, and re-confirm the levels Monday morning before adding.
- Aggregate levels are sturdier than single-expiry, but a major macro event (an oil shock, CPI, FOMC) still resets the board — re-verify afterward.
- Favor names with real, sustained volume so the thesis has institutional backing, not a one-day spike.
First steps
- Open Sector Flow and note the strongest sector this week.
- Run Breaking Out filtered to that sector.
- Log the thesis in your Journal so you can grade it later.
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.