🔴 Flow Pulse
Flow Pulse summarizes real-time option order flow into a few clean signals. Instead of watching thousands of prints, you get a net premium pulse per index and a market-wide composite, so you can tell at a glance whether flow is leaning bullish, bearish, or indecisive.
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Flow Pulse dashboard — SPY / QQQ / IWM panels + composite bar
What Each Panel Shows#
- Net Premium line — Bullish premium minus bearish premium, aggregated over the rolling window. Positive = call-buying / put-selling pressure; negative = the opposite.
- Rolling totals — Running totals of bullish and bearish premium over the chosen window (5m / 15m / 30m).
- Commentary— Short auto-generated summary of the panel's current state (e.g. "bullish pressure cooling" or "sharp bearish spike").
The Composite Bar#
The composite bar at the bottom combines SPY, QQQ and IWM into a single market-wide read. It's a quick answer to the question "is the overall options tape leaning one way right now?"
💡 The composite weights the three indices equally. Individual tickers can be bullish while the composite is muted — that's often a sector rotation signal rather than a market-wide move.
Toolbar Controls#
- Window — 5m, 15m or 30m rolling aggregation.
- Threshold — Level at which a panel is considered significantly bullish or bearish.
- Sound — Optional single/double beep when a panel crosses the threshold.
How to Read It#
- Both SPY and QQQ bullish → broad risk-on flow on large caps and tech.
- IWM bearish while SPY / QQQ bullish → small caps being faded even as mega-caps run.
- Composite flips sign mid-session → worth checking Live Flow for the trades that drove it.
🔑 Key Takeaways
- Flow Pulse = net bullish − net bearish premium per index
- Three index panels (SPY / QQQ / IWM) + one composite bar
- Rolling windows: 5m, 15m, 30m — pick what matches your timeframe
- Commentary summarizes the current state of each panel
- Use with Live Flow to see the individual trades behind a move in the pulse