Options Flow Scanner
Unusual options activity across defense, energy, AI, and critical minerals sectors. Volume spikes, IV percentile, and call/put ratios scored by conviction.
145 tickers with unusual activity available.
TSLA — ENERGY/BATTERY_STORAGE
Price: $381.68 · IV Percentile: 0% · Volume Spike: Truex
Call Volume: 195,924 · Put Volume: 153,324 · Score: 65
AG — METALS/CRITICAL_MINERALS
Price: $22.64 · IV Percentile: 7% · Volume Spike: Falsex
Call Volume: 8,568 · Put Volume: 1,616 · Score: 63
MSFT — AI/SOFTWARE_PLATFORMS
Price: $371.62 · IV Percentile: 8% · Volume Spike: Falsex
Call Volume: 67,158 · Put Volume: 21,382 · Score: 57
NOK — AI/NETWORKING_SWITCHES
Price: $8.27 · IV Percentile: 95% · Volume Spike: Falsex
Call Volume: 1,054 · Put Volume: 88 · Score: 53
GOOGL — AI/SOFTWARE_PLATFORMS
Price: $296.37 · IV Percentile: 9% · Volume Spike: Falsex
Call Volume: 34,251 · Put Volume: 22,415 · Score: 53
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Options Flow Scanner
Unusual options activity across defense, energy, AI, critical minerals, and robotics — volume spikes, IV percentile, call/put skew, and top contracts ranked by conviction score.
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Why Options Flow Matters
Options volume is the one market data point that requires the buyer to put money at risk with a time limit. When someone buys 10,000 calls expiring in two weeks on a defense stock, they're making a time-stamped directional bet that something will happen before expiration. Unlike analyst upgrades or news articles, options flow has a built-in accountability mechanism — the trade either works or it doesn't.
We scan options chains across our focus sectors every 2 hours during market hours, flagging volume spikes, elevated IV percentile readings, and extreme call/put skew. Each ticker is scored 0-100 based on the confluence of these indicators. When unusual flow aligns with congressional trades, 13F filings, or policy catalysts in our convergence pipeline, it becomes something more than noise.
What We Scan
6 Sectors, 38+ Tickers
Defense, Energy/Grid, AI, Critical Minerals, Robotics, and Bottleneck Enablers — the tickers where policy and positioning create asymmetric setups
How We Score
0-100 Conviction
Volume spike detection, IV percentile ranking (vs. 52-week range), call/put skew ratio, and top contract concentration — weighted into a single score
Where It Goes
Convergence Pipeline
High-scoring flow feeds into the 37-source convergence engine, stacking with 13F positions, congressional trades, and policy actions
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Scoring Methodology
Each ticker in our focus universe is scored 0-100 based on four weighted components:
- Volume Spike Detection — Current call volume compared against the 20-day average. A spike indicates someone is positioning aggressively today vs. normal activity. Spikes above 2x average contribute the highest score weight.
- IV Percentile — Current implied volatility ranked against the 52-week range (0th-100th percentile). High IV percentile means the market is pricing in more movement than usual — something is expected to happen. Readings above 80th percentile are flagged.
- Call/Put Skew — The ratio of call volume to put volume. Ratios above 3:1 indicate strong directional bullish conviction. Below 0.5:1 signals bearish positioning. The magnitude of the skew contributes to the score.
- Contract Concentration — We examine the top 5 most-active call contracts for each ticker. High volume relative to open interest (vol/OI ratio above 5x) on near-term contracts signals new positioning, not rolling or hedging. This is the "smart money" indicator.
Data sourced from Yahoo Finance options chains. Scans run every 2 hours during market hours (9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET, Monday-Friday). Scores feed into our convergence detection pipeline as one of 37 independent data sources — options flow alone is noise; options flow that aligns with 13F accumulation, congressional trades, and policy catalysts is a convergence.