Options flow
Unusual options activity, scored in public
The few biggest options trades of the day, posted to your feed as they happen. At most three a day, and every one is tracked on a public scoreboard afterwards, the losers included.
Three bars, all of them, every time
Most flow feeds show hundreds of prints a day and leave you to guess which matter. An alert here has to clear all three of these in the same session. On a quiet day, nothing does, and nothing is posted.
$2M or more in premium
Only contracts where at least two million dollars changed hands in the session. Small, noisy prints never qualify.
Volume at least 5x open interest
Volume far above the contracts that already existed means new positions are being opened, not old ones closed. That ratio is what unusual options activity actually means.
Never same-day expiry
0DTE contracts trade enormous volume every day as a matter of course, so they are left out. An alert is about a position someone means to hold.
Every alert is scored, in public
Flow services tend to show you the winners. The RelayTrades scoreboard keeps every alert we have posted and marks it to the market, whether it worked or not.
- An alert is recorded before it is posted, so one can never quietly go missing.
- Marked from the price when it was flagged to each market close until expiry, or until it reaches +100% at the bid.
- The summary shows the median, so one huge winner cannot carry the record.
- A close-to-close record of the contract, never a claim about what anyone made.
Trade it, or copy it automatically
Every alert in the feed has a Trade button that opens the contract in your own connected brokerage account. Or subscribe to options flow like you would a trader, and alerts are copied automatically or sent to you for approval, sized and capped by your own risk settings. Copies take profit at +100%, and anything that does not get there is closed automatically, so nothing is left to decay to expiry because nobody remembered it.
What an alert cannot tell you
Every contract traded has a buyer and a seller, and without the print tape nobody can say which side started it. So you will never see an alert call something smart money, a whale or a sweep. A large trade can be a hedge, or one leg of a bigger position. Many alerts lose, which is exactly why every one stays on the scoreboard.
Frequently asked questions
See the flow in your feed
The biggest options trades of the day, next to the traders you copy, with the full record one tap away.
Options trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for everyone. Alerts report public market activity and are not investment advice. Scoreboard figures are close-to-close marks of the contract, not trading results, and past results do not predict future results.