Opportunity Scanner: Automated GEX Setup Detection

What is the Opportunity Scanner?

The Opportunity Scanner monitors all supported tickers simultaneously for structural changes in their GEX profiles. Instead of manually checking each ticker's dashboard to see if a regime has flipped, a wall has broken, or the gamma flip level is approaching, the scanner does that monitoring for you and surfaces only the moments when something significant is happening.

This is the difference between reactive and proactive structural analysis. Without a scanner, you might miss a regime flip in QQQ because you were focused on SPY. With the scanner, the structural change surfaces automatically — you can focus on response and analysis rather than surveillance.

The scanner refreshes every 30 seconds during market hours, aligned with the main data refresh cycle. Available on Pro and Trader plans.

Alerts Tab: Active Setups

The Alerts tab shows structural conditions with immediate trading relevance — setups that are active right now and warrant attention. Four alert types fire here:

Approaching Flip (⚡) — Spot is within a narrow range of the Zero Gamma level; regime change is imminent. This is the highest-priority alert: the market is at the behavioral boundary where dealer mechanics invert. If spot crosses the Zero Gamma level, the regime badge changes and dealer behavior inverts completely.

Call Wall Break (🔴) — Price has closed through the Call Wall. The structural ceiling that was the primary resistance has been breached. A confirmed Call Wall break is one of the most significant structural events in GEX analysis — the level that was being actively defended by dealers (who were selling into it to hedge their long gamma) has been overcome, and may now become structural support as positions flip.

Put Wall Break (🔵) — Price has closed through the Put Wall. The structural floor has been violated. A Put Wall break signals the collapse of the support zone that dealer hedging was reinforcing — below this, the market loses a key gamma anchor and moves may accelerate to the downside until a new put concentration level is found.

Regime Shift (🔄) — The regime has flipped from Long to Short or vice versa in the last refresh cycle. This is the definitive behavioral change alert: dealer mechanics have inverted. Everything about how the market responds to price moves changes at this event.

Each alert card shows: ticker, current spot price, the specific level that triggered, and contextual detail about what happened and what it implies structurally.

Watch Tab: Developing Situations

The Watch tab shows the Short Gamma condition — tickers currently in a Short Gamma regime. These are situations worth monitoring rather than active signals requiring immediate attention, but they are structurally significant for strategy selection.

Short Gamma tickers appear in the Watch tab because they have three characteristics that change how you should trade them:

1. Higher average daily ranges — Short Gamma removes the dealer dampening effect. Without dealers buying dips and selling rips, price can trend more freely and with greater amplitude than baseline.
2. Self-reinforcing moves — In Short Gamma, dealers amplify rather than absorb. A down move triggers dealer selling (rehedging), which pushes price further down, which triggers more dealer selling. The feedback loop creates trending conditions that can persist longer than you'd expect from a technical analysis perspective alone.
3. Breakout/momentum bias — These tickers are candidates for directional breakout and momentum strategies rather than mean-reversion premium selling. The structural conditions favor trends, not ranges.

Watch items are shown as compact chips grouped by setup type — a quick visual scan of which tickers are in gamma-amplified conditions. Check the Watch tab at the open to identify which tickers in your universe are in Short Gamma that day.

Setup Types Explained

How to Use the Scanner

The scanner is not a mechanical entry system — it is a structural attention director. It tells you where to look and when, not what trade to make. The workflow when an alert fires:

1. Open the ticker's dashboard to see the full GEX profile in context. The scanner card gives you the headline; the dashboard gives you the full picture.
2. Check regime mode — is it currently Long or Short Gamma? What's the conviction level (GEX magnitude)?
3. Check the specific level that triggered — which wall broke? How close is spot to the flip? Is this a confirmed break or a brief touch?
4. Cross-reference with Options Flow — are sweeps aligned with the scanner alert? Institutional flow confirmation adds significant conviction to any structural signal.
5. Set an alert via the bell icon for ongoing monitoring if you want push or email notification for further developments on that ticker.

For the Watch tab: review Short Gamma tickers at the session open. These are your breakout watch candidates for the day. Check which of them are also showing Approaching Flip alerts — those are the highest-priority tickers for the session, as they combine short gamma amplification with potential further regime extension.