1. Establish Context
Start with Gamma Wall. Compare the current read against the prior session to understand what changed before you chase price or flow.
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Start with Gamma Wall. Compare the current read against the prior session to understand what changed before you chase price or flow.
Use Gamma Wall, Price Action, and Market Map to find the zones and breadth conditions that may matter. Treat these as reaction areas, not automatic entries.
Move into Fish Finder after Gamma Wall. Scan the ticker for active contracts, then use Flow or Net Premium to inspect whether activity supports the Gamma read.
Strong setups usually have narrative, price, positioning, flow, and breadth pointing in the same direction. Mixed signals mean slow down.
Use this when you first open the dashboard and need a clean read before the day gets noisy.
Compare the current Gamma Wall against the prior session. Focus on what shifted, what stayed anchored, and whether spot is approaching a meaningful zone.
Use Fish Finder on the tickers that matter from the Gamma read. Look for contracts where activity, moneyness, expiry, and side profile tell a consistent story.
Use Price Action, Market Map, Intel, Net Premium, and Discord bot alerts to decide whether the setup has enough outside confirmation.
Use this after a stock or index is already moving and you need to know whether the move has support.
Check whether the move is pressing into, rejecting from, or moving through a Gamma Wall zone. Focus on how price behaves around the visible structure.
Use Fish Finder to see whether activity is concentrated in specific expiries, strike regions, call/put profiles, or repeated contracts.
Use Discord bot alerts as a second screen for notable activity and reminders, then return to the dashboard for context.
Use this around macro releases, earnings, policy headlines, or major probability shifts.
Intel and event views help identify what participants are repricing.
Gamma Wall can help locate areas where reactions may become crowded or unstable.
When event risk is high, require more agreement before treating a signal as useful.
Use Gamma Wall to identify positioning zones where price may react, stall, accelerate, or become more sensitive to nearby levels. Your main comparison should be current structure versus prior-session structure.
A bright level is not a guaranteed trade. Treat Gamma Wall as structure, then require confirmation from Fish Finder, Flow, price action, and broader market context.
Trifecta transforms Gamma Wall into a side-by-side comparison matrix, allowing you to monitor up to three concurrent tickers simultaneously without leaving the page.
Tracer converts the expanded Gamma Wall into an intraday tunnel view. It uses the same Gamma Wall structure, but renders the most meaningful positive and negative zones as projected price reaction corridors.
Bright tunnel zones are not targets by themselves. They show where current gamma structure is most meaningful. Use price behavior, Fish Finder, Flow, and broader context before assigning trade meaning.
Use Intel to determine what the market may be reacting to before interpreting price, options flow, or sentiment.
Use the view switcher to compare individual chart behavior with stocks, indices, and global market tone.
Use event odds as an expectation gauge. The value is in how expectations shift, not in treating probabilities as certainty.
TFI is a sentiment and risk-appetite read. Use it as a market pulse, not as a standalone timing tool.
Use Market Map to confirm whether the tape is broad, concentrated, defensive, or speculative.
Use the Flow workspace when you need contract-level context. It is where a broad idea becomes a specific options read.
Use Fish Finder after Gamma Wall. It turns a structural read into a contract search by showing where notable options activity is appearing inside a ticker.
Use Net Premium to compare directional premium pressure over the current session.
Use Rotation to understand relative strength across sectors or market groups. The goal is to see where larger market participants may be rotating before the move becomes obvious on one ticker.
Use RADAR to move from broad discovery into a ticker dossier. The Stage Map organizes names by price-action cycle so users can quickly see whether a ticker is reclaiming, advancing, breaking out, extended, fading, or declining.
Use Dexter as the alert and monitoring layer. Dexter surfaces open-interest trackers, GEX watches, and Fish Finder repeated-hit flow while the dashboard provides the deeper context needed to interpret it.
Status labels, session indicators, and latency displays tell you whether the read is healthy enough to trust.
The backend compares each sector or ETF return against SPY over the selected window. If a group is outperforming SPY, its RS-Ratio moves above the neutral 100 line. If it is underperforming, it moves below 100.
Above 100 means relative strength. Below 100 means relative weakness. The map is about leadership versus the market, not whether the group is green or red on the day.
The 1W, 2W, and 1M views help separate quick rotation from more durable leadership. A group can look hot on the short view while still weak on the longer view, or start improving before the broader market notices.
Use the short view for fresh movement and the longer view for confirmation. Cleaner rotation usually appears across more than one timeframe.
RS-Momentum tracks whether relative strength is accelerating or fading. A sector above 100 RS-Ratio but losing RS-Momentum may still be a leader, but leadership is cooling.
The strongest read is not just strong. It is strong and still improving.
The map plots RS-Ratio and RS-Momentum together. The recent tail shows direction of travel, which helps users see whether a group is moving toward leadership, losing momentum, or repairing from weakness.
Watch the path, not only the current dot. Rotation is a movement pattern.
The Trending ETFs view ranks groups by composite heat. Heat combines relative strength, momentum, and recent velocity so the tape can quickly surface the hottest, fastest, and weakest pressure points.
Use heat as a discovery layer, then confirm with price action, Flow, Fish Finder, and Gamma Wall.
Rotation is built from closing price data and cached by timeframe. The dashboard shows an as-of date in the tape so users know which close the current read is based on.
This is not a live tick-by-tick flow feed. It is a relative-strength rotation lens designed to show where larger capital may be shifting over days and weeks.
Stages answers one question quickly: where is this ticker in its price-action life cycle?
Use the stage to decide whether a ticker looks early, clean, extended, fading, or structurally weak before moving into deeper confirmation.
The broad cycle is Stage 1 basing/reclaim, Stage 2 advancing, Stage 3 fading/distribution, and Stage 4 declining. The letters break each broad phase into more actionable sub-stages.
The number tells the broad cycle. The letter tells whether the ticker is earlier, more developed, or later in that phase.
The stock is trying to repair structure after weakness or consolidation. This is the early watch area where a ticker may begin to regain important levels.
Interesting for early setup discovery, but it still needs confirmation from price action and participation.
The stock is in an improving trend phase. This is usually the cleaner early trend zone before the move becomes crowded or visibly stretched.
Often the best lane for users looking for trend participation without chasing the latest-stage move.
The stock is attempting expansion from structure into stronger momentum. This is where users should confirm whether the move has real follow-through.
Check price action, volume, Flow, Fish Finder, and market context before treating the breakout as clean.
The trend is still strong, but the ticker may already be stretched. Strong does not always mean attractive entry.
Use this lane to avoid blindly chasing. Look for pullback context, continuation evidence, or exhaustion risk.
The stock may be losing momentum or moving into a topping/distribution phase. It can still look strong visually while structure starts to weaken.
Useful for caution, trimming bias, or watching whether prior leaders are starting to lose control.
The stock is in a weaker structural phase. Failed rallies, downside control, and weak reclaim attempts become more important.
Do not evaluate these names the same way as Reclaim or Advance names. They require stronger evidence before bullish reads carry weight.
Confidence tells users how cleanly the ticker fits the stage. It is not a win rate, price target, or probability that a trade will work.
A 73% confidence label means the current structure fits that stage more cleanly than a lower-confidence name.
ATR extension shows how stretched price is relative to recent movement. Positive extension means price is stretched upward; negative extension means price is stretched downward.
Use ATR extension to avoid confusing strength with a good entry, or weakness with a clean short.
Start with the stage lane, then open the ticker dossier. After that, confirm the read with price action, Fish Finder, Flow, Gamma Wall, and broader market context.
Stages are market-cycle labels, not buy or sell signals.
Before reacting to the current wall, compare it against yesterday's visible context. A level that remains in place can act differently from a level that just appeared or shifted.
Percentages should be read as relative change, not trade probability. A larger percentage change means the visible condition changed more compared with its reference point.
A level can be important but too far away to matter immediately. A nearby level can matter intraday even if the broader setup still needs confirmation.
Ask: is price approaching the level, rejecting from it, holding below it, or moving cleanly through it?
The best read comes after price interacts with the area. Look for stalls, rejections, accelerations, failed breaks, or repeat tests.
After the Gamma read, move to Fish Finder and Flow to check whether contracts near the same ticker or zone are active.
A percentage can help rank what changed most, but it should not override context. Users should combine percentage change with level location, price behavior, freshness, and flow.
Percentages answer "how much did this visible read change?" They do not answer "will this trade work?"
After comparing today versus yesterday, pick the zones worth watching. Then use alerts, Fish Finder, and price action to monitor whether the market starts respecting those zones.
The end result should be a watchlist of levels, not an automatic trade.
The side emojis mark the role of an important strike. Tracer uses color and brightness to show the same gamma structure as projected intraday zones.
These markers describe positioning structure, not guaranteed support, resistance, or trade direction. Always confirm how price reacts at the level.
Tracer starts from the expanded Gamma Wall payload and focuses the view around the most meaningful gamma structure, especially the weighted magnet and trigger region used by the standalone Gamma Wall. It does not tighten the chart around spot alone.
Tracer currently redraws from the latest gamma payload; it does not preserve a full historical gamma tape for each prior intraday column. Treat it as a live structure view, not a saved replay.
Use these illustrative maps to practice identifying recurring GEX structures. Green cells show positive GEX, red cells show negative GEX, and the blue row marks spot.
The clearest standalone Boomstick is a dominant 0DTE positive-GEX node above spot. It acts as the contextual ceiling and can make a rally less efficient as price approaches.
A dominant positive-GEX node above spot is the Boomstick, acting as the ceiling. A dominant negative-GEX node below spot is the Trigger, acting as the floor. Together they define the structural range for the session.
A Staircase forms when a dominant positive-GEX target has smaller positive-GEX nodes between it and spot. Those intermediate nodes turn a distant destination into a sequence.
Price must clear each intermediate node to keep the Staircase active. If one holds and rejects the move, reassess the full target instead of assuming price will skip the checkpoint.
The node that defines a destination may be different from the node that provides entry structure after a pullback. Reaching a correct target does not turn that target into an entry.
Mark the target, identify any negative-GEX transit rows, and locate the separate entry-support node. Wait for price to return and confirm its reaction instead of initiating risk at the destination.
Entry Sequence begins after price tests a strong base formed by nearby dominant Triggers. The next question is whether the positive-GEX wall overhead continues absorbing the rally or changes polarity.
Treat the paired Triggers as one structural floor. Then wait while the overhead wall remains green and track that same strike across updates. When it flips red, absorption has released and negative gamma can reinforce the advance; require price confirmation before treating the flip as a continuation entry.
An air pocket is a band of strikes where net dealer GEX stays near zero and no meaningful positive- or negative-GEX node occupies the interior.
With little gamma structure available to slow price, movement can travel more quickly through the band. Treat the pocket as open space—not a level—and watch its boundaries, nearby nodes, and polarity changes.
Several positive-GEX nodes across nearby strikes can behave as one structural band. Magnitude and density determine how much influence the cluster carries.
Smaller nodes may be porous. A dense, high-value cluster can slow movement and contain price for longer.
Rug Pull is a bearish unpaired-Boomstick structure: positive GEX forms the Boomstick ceiling above spot while separated negative-GEX rows supply downside fuel below.
The Boomstick can cap a rally while negative gamma below can reinforce a decline. Rejection identifies the setup; downside acceptance or acceleration provides the stronger confirmation.
Closely related instruments can produce incompatible maps—for example, one bullish, one bearish, and another pinned around spot.
Treat the conflict as a directional no-trade filter. Failed breaks and two-sided chop become more likely. If a clean range forms, confirmed outer-boundary fades may remain viable; mid-range entries have no structural edge.
The map defines the structure. Price behavior determines whether that structure is active.
Fish Finder works best when you already know why you care about the ticker. Start with the Gamma Wall comparison, then scan the ticker to see whether options activity supports the structure.
Turn "this area matters" into "which contracts are traders actually using?"
Use expiry, moneyness, call/put type, size, premium, and today/history controls to narrow the table. The goal is to remove noise until the active contracts become obvious.
ATM, ITM, and OTM labels help users understand how aggressive or speculative the selected activity may be. Combine moneyness with expiry and side profile before drawing a conclusion.
ATM often matters for immediate sensitivity, ITM can indicate stronger conviction or hedging, and OTM can indicate speculative upside or downside interest.
Fish Finder separates activity into buy-side, sell-side, midpoint, stale, and missing-quote contexts when available. This helps users avoid treating every large print as directional.
A single print can be interesting, but repeated activity in the same contract or nearby contracts is usually more useful. Look for persistence across time, expiry, and strike region.
Repeated Fish Finder activity becomes more meaningful when it lines up with Gamma Wall structure, visible price action, and Discord bot alerts.
When a Fish Finder row matters, move into Flow for contract-level detail. Use the snapshot, moneyness, DTE, notional context, and volume behavior to decide whether the activity is useful or noisy.
Fish Finder finds candidates. Flow helps inspect them. Gamma Wall keeps the candidate tied to market structure.
Start by confirming the ticker, strike, option type, and expiration. A contract only matters if it connects back to the Gamma Wall area or active price zone you are watching.
Is this contract located near the level that made you interested in the ticker?
Short-dated contracts can show urgency, while longer-dated contracts may reflect a slower thesis. Compare DTE with the catalyst, market session, and expected holding window.
Does the expiration match the speed of the move being implied?
Ask-side, bid-side, midpoint, stale, and missing-quote labels should change your confidence. Clean side profile is easier to interpret than activity with uncertain quote context.
Side labels help estimate pressure, but they do not prove whether a position is opening, closing, hedging, or part of a larger trade.
Premium shows money involved; size shows contract count. Large premium in a liquid contract can mean something different from large size in a cheaper contract.
Is the activity meaningful for this ticker, or only large in isolation?
Volume compared with open interest helps users understand whether today's activity stands out. Use this as context, not as a standalone signal.
Is today's contract activity unusual relative to what was already open?
ATM, ITM, and OTM contracts carry different risk profiles. The most useful read combines moneyness with where spot is relative to Gamma Wall structure.
Is the contract aggressive, defensive, or centered around the level being tested?
Use after Gamma Wall highlights a ticker or zone. Filter by ticker first, then compare calls, puts, expiry, and moneyness around the level being watched.
Checking whether options activity is appearing near the structure that matters.
Look for the same contract or nearby strikes appearing more than once. Repeated activity is usually cleaner than a single isolated print.
Finding persistence across time instead of reacting to one transaction.
Focus on shorter-dated contracts when a move is happening now or an event is near. Pair this with price action because short-dated flow can change quickly.
Intraday confirmation, event risk, and fast-moving names.
De-emphasize stale, missing-quote, or scattered midpoint activity when you need a cleaner read. Reintroduce them later if liquidity is thin.
Reducing false confidence from low-quality quote context.
Dexter supports prefix commands and matching slash commands for the core monitoring workflow.
Use these when a ticker needs immediate dashboard context or when the channel wants a watch running in the background.
Dexter uses Fish Finder as the single source for repeated-hit flow alerts, so Discord and the dashboard read from the same logic.
Dexter keeps alerts short so Discord stays usable as a monitoring layer instead of becoming a second dashboard.
Users should know what each alert field is asking them to inspect next.
A better alert is not only bigger. It is easier to use because it fits structure, repeats, and confirms across modules.
Gamma Wall location, Fish Finder repetition, Flow detail, and price action all point to the same area.
A bot flags a large premium contract on a ticker already near a Gamma Wall area.
Open Gamma Wall first, confirm whether the ticker is near a visible zone, then use Fish Finder to see whether the same strike region or expiration is seeing repeat activity.
A ticker appears in multiple alerts during the same session.
Check whether activity is clustered or scattered. Clustered contracts near similar strikes or expiries are usually easier to interpret than unrelated one-off alerts.
A put alert appears while the broader market or sector is weakening.
Confirm whether price action, Market Map, and Net Premium agree. If the ticker is moving against broad context, require stronger confirmation.
A bot flags a contract, but Gamma Wall, Fish Finder, price action, and breadth do not line up.
Mark it as watchlist only. The alert may become useful later, but it is not a complete read by itself.
Dexter only posts repeated-hit flow when Fish Finder qualifies a fresh cluster. The scanner looks for the same exact contract receiving repeated fresh same-side trades inside the active window.
Use this dictionary to translate alert fields into the next dashboard action.
A single module flashes interest, but price, breadth, or narrative does not confirm it. This is usually a watchlist item, not a decision.
Two or more modules agree, but one major piece is missing. Example: Gamma Wall and Fish Finder agree, but breadth or narrative is still unclear.
Gamma Wall, Fish Finder, price action, breadth, and alert context are aligned. This does not remove risk, but it means the read is cleaner.
A ticker is approaching an important Gamma Wall area and Fish Finder shows repeated call-side interest in contracts tied to the same region.
The read improves if price action confirms, Net Premium supports the direction, and Discord alerts continue to flag related activity. The user should still wait for execution context instead of treating the level as a guaranteed breakout.
Price reaches a Gamma Wall area and stalls while Fish Finder starts showing put activity, closing call interest, or mixed side profile.
The read is not automatically bearish. It means users should slow down, check whether breadth is fading, and decide whether the tape is rejecting the area or simply pausing.
Gamma Wall highlights a meaningful area, but Fish Finder is quiet, stale, or scattered across unrelated expiries and strikes.
This is often a watchlist condition. The structure may matter later, but the options layer has not confirmed enough participation yet.
A Discord bot flags notable activity while the user is away from the dashboard.
Treat the alert as a prompt, not a conclusion. Open Gamma Wall first, compare against the prior session, then use Fish Finder and Flow to decide whether the alert fits the broader map.
Fish Finder shows several call contracts on the same ticker with similar expiries while spot is moving toward a Gamma Wall area.
This is a stronger candidate than one isolated print. Check whether the activity is near the same strike region, whether side profile is clean, and whether price is confirming the move.
A single contract shows large premium, but the ticker is far from the Gamma Wall area and other contracts are quiet.
Do not force the read. Large premium can be useful, but it needs context, repetition, or confirmation before it becomes meaningful.
Calls and puts both appear active around the same ticker, with no clean direction from price action.
This can mean positioning, hedging, event risk, or an unclear tape. Treat it as a caution signal and wait for cleaner confirmation.
Short-dated contracts appear repeatedly while price is already moving quickly.
Near-dated activity can move fast and fade fast. Confirm freshness, side profile, and price behavior before assigning weight.
No. PigmentOS is an educational and research tool. Users should make their own decisions and use independent risk controls.
Different modules depend on different data services. A single widget can degrade while others remain healthy, especially during provider interruptions.
Start with Gamma Wall, compare it to the prior session, then use Fish Finder and Flow to inspect whether active contracts support the structure. Use Intel, Price Action, Market Map, and Discord bots for confirmation.
Use it as a live expectation gauge for event risk, then compare it with news tone, market breadth, and options positioning for context.
The product is designed for confluence. A single signal is a prompt to investigate, not a complete thesis.