Monitor Real-Time Options Trades to find Trading Opportunities
Our Options Flow product provides real-time alerts of unusual options activity that can predict significant price movements

Traders Monitor the Options Market Because It Works

Large Block Options Trades Predict Movements in Stock Prices

Long considered a market for smart money, tracking options trades can uncover a bull or a bear opportunity hiding in plain sight, as it effectively follows institutional decision making.

Investors use options for many purposes and most markets, including stocks, futures, and currencies. Trading options is one of the most complicated investor undertakings.

Fintel options flow data simplifies your research by filtering and displaying the largest institutional options trades in near real-time. That allows users to track the opening of large put or call positions and determine if they’re bullish or bearish.

Our options flow tools allow users to track options time and sales data like they can track stock trades. It shows the big trades, where they are being executed and whether they are a buy or a sell. The tool provides investors with 19 data points for unusual options trades, from the company ticker symbol to internal volatility.

Investors also access our historical options flow data for ETF and stocks, where we provide regular updates to our list of the most active and popular options trades.

Options flow data is sometimes referred to as options order sentiment, unusual options activity, or order flow. All these names refer to the same thing; massive orders from institutional traders or market makers. These orders can range from a few hundred thousand dollars to millions.

Unusual Options Activity

Unusual options activity involves option orders with large relative volume. They can represent a bet on the direction of the underlying stock in the short term. Unusual options activity can also be used as a hedge; therefore, it’s best to use it with other indicators available on Fintel to understand potential profit implications.

Individual investor demand for options trading is growing fast. According to the CBOE, "at the smallest possible trade size, one contract, total activity in 2021 exceeded 2020, with a recent share near seven percent of the daily volume, or approximately three million contracts per day. Current levels of 1-lot flow are six times the average seen five years ago and include a mix of retail, ’pro-tail,’ and institutional traders."

We demystify options data, delivering real-time insights and information to make winning decisions with institutional-grade tools for all.