Every option you buy, a market maker sells. They do not want your bet, only the fee, so they hedge, and as price moves they have to hedge again. NeuralStrike measures that forced flow across the whole chain and puts the reading, the trade it implies and a paper book to test it on one screen.
Nothing here places an order. Every position is paper, marked against the live market.
Live
Open to anyone, no sign-in
Measured
Flow, not opinion
Paper
No orders, ever
When you buy an option, a market maker — a dealer — is usually on the other side. Dealers do not want a directional bet. They want the fee. So they hedge, and the hedge is where the story starts.
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You buy the option
A dealer takes the other side, whether or not they like the direction.
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The dealer hedges flat
They buy or sell the stock until the position carries no view. Just the fee.
03
Price moves. The hedge is wrong again.
The right hedge changes with every tick, so staying flat means trading again — mechanically, in a direction the math dictates.
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That trading is visible
It is large, it is predictable, and it is sitting in the options chain for anyone who measures it. Measuring it is the whole app.
If you learn one thing here, make it dealer gamma. The glossary explains it without the jargon, and the Gamma screen shows it live.
See every screen on the Live Desk →
Measures the pressure directly: where dealers are pinned, where they will amplify a move and where they will lean against it.
Watches where the option money is going right now, rather than where the commentary says it went.
Names the environment the pressure acts in. The same reading means different things on a trending day and a whipsaw one.
Turns the reading into a trade: ranked candidates, structures priced against the models, and repairs for a position that has gone against you.
Paper by design
Every trade the app opens is simulated: a paper position marked against the real market, so the book behaves like a live one and costs you nothing to be wrong in.
Real money, read-only
Run it on your own machine and the one real thing on screen is your Schwab portfolio, pulled through a small local gateway and shown read-only. Nothing on any screen can move it.
The Live Desk runs against the market all session, with nothing to sign into. Read Dealer Positioning first, then what the rest of the desk makes of it.
Gamma reads, flow alerts and paper-trade post-mortems, posted as they happen. Questions welcome. Nobody here is selling signals.