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5 posts tagged options.
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Gamma Exposure (GEX): How Dealer Hedging Shapes Every Move
Positive vs negative gamma regimes change how the market reacts to shocks. Same tape, same headline — the path depends on whether dealers are damping moves or amplifying them. The GEX card makes the regime visible.
IV Rank, IV Percentile, and Skew: The Three Numbers That Price Every Option
Raw implied volatility is a useless headline number — a 45% IV is cheap on a biotech and expensive on KO. IV rank, IV percentile, and skew answer different questions about where vol sits in its own history, and traders who confuse them pay for the confusion in credit spreads sold into cheap-looking vol that isn't cheap.
Open Interest Magnets: Where Price Wants to Pin Into Expiration
Large open interest clusters act as magnets into monthly and weekly expiration. Here's how to read the Options Open Interest card on alphactor.ai and turn max-pain levels into real trade structure.
Unusual Options Activity: Reading Smart-Money Flow Before the Move
What qualifies as unusual options activity, how to separate informed flow from noise, and where the alphactor.ai Unusual Activity card surfaces it inside the sentiment page.
What the Options Market Tells You About Stock Direction
How to read implied volatility, put/call ratios, unusual activity, and gamma exposure to extract directional signals from the options market.