Flowseeker - options flow

See where options money is going, live.

Flowseeker streams every options print with where it filled, its size and the open interest behind it, so you can tell a likely new position from noise.

Flowseeker Live Feed with options prints, side and flow scoreFlowseeker Live Feed with options prints, side and flow score

The problem

The tape moves faster than you can read it

  • A huge call print flashes by and you can't tell if it's a new bet, someone closing, or one leg of a spread.
  • Thousands of prints a day, and the ones that matter scroll past while you're looking at the chart.
  • The flow is in one tab, the levels in another and the earnings date in a third.

With Flowseeker

Every print, with the context to read it

Flowseeker puts each trade next to what you need to judge it: bid or ask side, premium, size against open interest, and sweep, multi-leg and cross flags. Boards sum that flow by contract, by ticker and across the whole market, so you see where money is concentrating without reading every row. The next morning's open interest shows which positions were really opened.

How it works

Flowseeker, step by step

  1. Watch the tape

    Live Feed shows every print as it happens. Filter by ticker, calls or puts, side, days to expiry and premium, then save each setup as its own tab, like "0DTE SPY" or "Earnings week".

    Flowseeker Live Feed with options prints, side and flow scoreFlowseeker Live Feed with options prints, side and flow score

  2. Find the busy contracts

    Flow Scanner ranks the session's most active contracts, with presets such as Bullish Flow and Bearish Flow. Flow Compass shows the whole market's lean, from Market Tide down to one ticker's strikes.

    Flow Scanner with the Bullish Flow preset applied and its filters openFlow Scanner with the Bullish Flow preset applied and its filters open

  3. Drill into one contract

    Click any row for the Contract Drilldown: flow bars through the day, the bid, mid and ask mix, calls and puts bought and sold, and the contract's Vol/OI history.

    Contract Drilldown for a near-the-money SPY call: flow bars through the day, bid/mid/ask mix, net premium and Vol/OI historyContract Drilldown for a near-the-money SPY call: flow bars through the day, bid/mid/ask mix, net premium and Vol/OI history

  4. Follow what you found

    Save a print to the Flow Tracker to see whether the position appears to still be open, or set a Flow Alert so you hear about the next matching print without watching the tape.

    New Flow Alert form with tickers, calls or puts, trade side and premium thresholdsNew Flow Alert form with tickers, calls or puts, trade side and premium thresholds

Flow Compass

The whole market on one board

One board takes you from the whole market down to a single contract. Start at the market cards to see the day's lean, then move to a ticker or to the screens that surface contracts. Cards describe today; they don't predict.

  • Market Tide

    The whole market's cumulative NCP and NPP through the session, with SPY on the right axis for context. Step back through past sessions with the arrows or the calendar.

  • Net Impact

    Today's most bullish and most bearish names by net premium (NCP minus NPP). Indices and broad ETFs are excluded.

  • Breadth Heat Calendar

    Per sector, what share of stocks closed above their own 20-day average. Broad or narrow participation. Daily; it does not move intraday.

  • Rotation Map

    Each sector against an equal-weighted market: leading, weakening, lagging, improving. Press play to replay the rotation.

Capabilities

What you can do with Flowseeker

  • Filter the tape your way

    Narrow Live Feed by ticker, side, expiry, premium, Vol/OI, Flow Score and more. Quick toggles isolate sweeps, single-leg or multi-leg trades, and prints bigger than open interest. Flow Highlighting colours those large prints so they stand out as the feed scrolls.

  • Separate new positions from noise

    Size > OI, Vol/OI and next-day Delta OI show whether a print looks like a brand-new position. Multi-leg and cross flags warn you when a big call print is really one leg of something else.

  • Read the whole market on one board

    Flow Compass takes you from Market Tide and Net Impact down to Strike Flow on SPY and QQQ, with screens for Aggressive Bets, Repetitive Hits and Large Opening Orders.

  • See large off-exchange stock trades

    Dark Feed lists big dark-pool prints with size, notional and share of average volume, so you can note the prices where big blocks of shares changed hands.

  • Check the calendar before reading size

    Company Events shows earnings, dividends and splits, plus insider filings and Congress disclosures for a ticker, so you know what might explain unusual flow.

  • Get alerted and share a digest

    Keep up to 25 Flow Alerts delivered in-app, by push, email or Discord DM. Accounts with Flowseeker sharing can build an end-of-day Flow Summary and post it to their Discord channels.

Every feature

Everything in Flowseeker

50 features · 6 groups

Why traders pay for it

What Flowseeker puts in your hands

What's uniquely in hand

Every options print as it happens, with the side it filled on, its size against open interest and sweep, multi-leg and cross flags, so a likely new position stands apart from noise.

Time it gives back

Saved feed tabs, Flow Compass and up to 25 Flow Alerts do the watching, so you never have to read every row.

What it replaces

A raw time-and-sales feed, a separate dark-pool tracker and an earnings calendar in another tab.

Included with every plan.Market data licensed via NASDAQ, CBOE and OPRA.

Pairs with

Flowseeker with the rest of Skylit

  • Heatseeker

    Flow shows what is trading; Heatseeker shows where dealers are positioned. Many traders check what Strike Flow shows at a Heatseeker level.

  • Atlas

    Add Flow, Net Premium, Flow VWAP and Dark Pool lines from the Atlas Add menu to see flow under your candles (plans that include charts).

  • Talon

    Ask about flow in plain English, like "What's unusual today?" or /flow NVDA. On Flowseeker pages Talon sees your filters and the rows in view (Pro and higher plans).

What's new

Recently shipped in Flowseeker

All updates

  1. Strike Flow bars show bought and sold only(in the guide, opens docs.skylit.ai in a new tab)

    Strike Flow bars now show only bought and sold premium, with mid prints on hover, so each bar counts only trades with a clear side.

  2. 1M window on Contract Lookup(in the guide, opens docs.skylit.ai in a new tab)

    Contract Lookup boards now switch to 1M, so you can see which contracts led volume, premium and open interest over the past month.

  3. Congress disclosures on Company Events(in the guide, opens docs.skylit.ai in a new tab)

    Company Events now shows a ticker's trades disclosed by members of Congress, so you can spot that background before reading its flow.

FAQ

Questions about Flowseeker

Which plans include Flowseeker?

Flowseeker is included in the Community, Initiate and Pro plans. The first time you open it, you sign the OPRA market-data agreement (OPRA publishes US options trades). You only sign once.

What's the difference between Live Feed and Flow Scanner?

Each Live Feed row is one trade, so you see orders the moment they print. Each Flow Scanner row is one contract summed over the session, so you see which contracts are unusually busy today.

Can I save my filters?

Yes. Each Live Feed tab keeps its own filters, columns, sort and highlighting. Add, rename and duplicate tabs to keep several setups side by side.

Does an ask-side call print mean someone is bullish?

Not on its own. Side tells you where a trade filled, not why. A hedge, a close or one leg of a spread can all print at the ask. Check the multi-leg and cross flags, size against open interest, and the next morning's Delta OI before you read direction.

Does Flowseeker show market tide?

Yes. Market Tide on Flow Compass tracks the whole market's net call and net put premium through the session, with SPY for context, and you can step back through past sessions.

Does Flowseeker tell me what to trade?

No. Flowseeker shows what traded and where it filled. It is not a forecast and not a recommendation. Flow Score ranks prints by how directional they look; it has not been tested as a predictor of moves.

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Read the tape with context

Live options flow, dark-pool prints and market-wide boards in one place. Educational tool, not financial advice.

Get AccessRead the Flowseeker guide(opens docs.skylit.ai in a new tab)