The options desk
Pick options on first launch and this desk opens: the chain in the center, the vol structure on the left, Greeks and the dealers' gamma book on the right. The question every options trader is actually asking — is this vol worth its price, and who's positioned against me — answered by panels that share one symbol.
Full options chain with NBBO, implied vol and per-strike Greeks — the densest sheet the desk owns, so it takes the center. The strategy builder and pin-risk read sit one tab behind it; the chart below.
Implied vol as the surface and term structure, quoted vol in the chain, and positioned vol as the dealers' gamma book — the read most stacks split across three products, side by side here.
Multi-leg strategy builder with a payoff analyzer — built FROM the chain, not in a separate calculator. Price a spread against the vol you can see, not the vol you remember.
Portfolio and per-position Greeks with a what-if slide: move spot, move vol, move time, watch the book reprice. The vol cone answers whether the implied you're buying is rich against the realized record.
Call walls, put walls and the gamma flip computed nightly from the chain — for the indices and the liquid single names. The strikes where hedging flow pins or accelerates price, drawn where you're already reading.
The flow read surfaces the prints that don't fit — size against open interest, sweeps against the book — so the tape's loudest options activity finds you instead of the other way around.
The free Explorer tier runs this desk on delayed data — evaluate the whole workflow before paying anything. Real-time, with the nightly gamma books, is Pro.
