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How q-bitf reads dealer positioning, how to use every part of the app, and how to take the levels onto your own charts and tools.
What dealer positioning is and why it moves price.
Call and put walls, the gamma flip, HVL, the expected move and the day range.
What positive and negative gamma mean for price, and how to read the regime badge.
What call and put walls are, why price stalls at them, and when they break.
The price where dealer gamma turns from positive to negative, and why it matters.
The strike where expiring options pay out the least, and how much weight to give it.
The range options are pricing for the session, and how to use the 1σ band.
How options hedging can turn a move into a runaway, and the signs to watch.
How gamma exposure differs across SPX, SPY, QQQ and NDX, and how it maps to ES and NQ.
Which expiries the levels cover, and why they move during the day.
How index levels land on ES, NQ and GC charts, and the cash or ETF alternatives.
What updates live, what is set once a day, and why everything is in New York time.
Panels, layouts, symbols and keyboard shortcuts.
The level ladder, the regime, the trade plan and the live gamma chart.
Gamma, delta, vanna, charm and convexity by strike, as ladders, profiles and heatmaps.
Options flow, the live tape, order flow, skew and drift, and the scanner.
Term structure, smile, the surface, vol premium, implied distribution and the pricer.
News, the economic calendar, rates, correlations, insiders and dark pool volume.
How often each level actually held, measured against what price did.
The trade journal, study notes, prop-firm tracking and position sizing.
Price
23Candlesticks with the walls, gamma flip, vol trigger and 1σ band drawn on price, and how to trade them.
One line with the price, the gamma regime and how far each key level sits from price.
Candles with the gamma profile drawn beside price, the regime and the wall nearest the action.
The day's price with dealer exposure by strike for the whole chain, and every wall, flip and vol trigger.
Dealer Positioning
24Net dealer gamma at every strike, with the walls, flip, vol trigger and 1D range marked, and how to read it.
The session's price against the call wall, put wall, gamma flip and vol trigger, with the nearest level called out.
The gamma flip, walls, vol trigger and max pain for each upcoming expiry, against the current price.
Dealer exposure for any greek at every strike, colored by days to expiry, with the walls, flip and max pain.
Net gamma of the whole chain at each strike, as one profile, with the flip, call wall and put wall.
Call and put open interest at every strike, the put/call ratio near spot, max pain and the key levels.
How far each call and put pair strays from put/call parity, strike by strike, to spot pricing dislocations.
Heatmaps
43One greek's dealer exposure in a grid of strikes by expiries, so you can see which expiry holds the weight.
Dealer delta exposure in a grid of strikes by expiries: how large the hedge is at each strike, and which expiries carry it.
Today's options contracts at each strike split into call buys, call sells, put buys and put sells, to see which side is aggressive where.
The strikes daily closes kept landing near over recent sessions, with the dealer exposure and today's trading at each one.
A strike by expiry grid counting how many of the book's strongest readings point at each cell, to find where positioning concentrates.
Open interest in a grid of strikes by expiries, to find where positions are concentrated.
How dealer exposure built up at each strike through the session, in time buckets, with price on top.
Dealer gamma, charm or vanna by price and time, from the session so far projected forward to the close.
Flow & Tape
51Where today's options trading landed, strike by strike, as gamma, delta, vanna or charm flow, or as call and put volume.
Option contracts trading far more today than their open interest, by strike, so new positioning stands out from routine trading.
How much dealer gamma today's trading added above and below price, minute by minute, and which side is dominant.
Running options delta, gamma, vanna and charm flow for the session, drawn over price, so you can see when flow leads or leaves a move.
Cumulative call and put premium through the session, the net between them, and the underlying, so you can see which side is leaning.
Volatility
33At-the-money implied volatility for every expiry, with the 30-day VIX window marked.
Implied volatility across strikes for one expiry, with calls, puts, a fitted curve and the 25-delta strikes.
Realized volatility at each horizon against its historical range, with today's implied volatility on top.
Implied volatility across every strike and expiry as one 3D surface, so skew and term structure can be read together.
Today's likely range projected from the prior close using how far the market has really moved.
Forecasts
38While CME is closed, a predicted reopening price for ES, NQ and GC, with direction, a likely range and where it lands against the levels.
The next three macro releases for your market: the odds of a cooler, in-line or hotter print, the options-implied move, and how the market reacted before.
The options-implied range around price for every horizon, with today's 1D band and how much of it is used.
The options-implied probability cone for price over the coming weeks, next to the recent candles.
Draw q-bitf levels on your TradingView charts with the Chrome extension.
The q-bitf GEX study for MotiveWave: install, sign in and update.
Membership, chart commands and support in the q-bitf Discord.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants to your q-bitf data.
Pro and Ultra, how pricing works, codes, payment and cancelling.
Your license key, MCP keys, active sessions and sign-in history.
Your q-bitf bio page at q-bitf.com/@username.
Earn by referring traders with your own code.
q-bitf shows where options dealers are positioned and what that positioning means for price: the strikes that act as walls, the price where the market's behaviour flips, and how today's options flow is changing the picture. It covers the ES, NQ and GC futures, the SPX and NDX indexes, the big ETFs and most optionable US stocks.
It reads the market. It does not place trades and it is not financial advice.
Start here#
| If you want to | Read |
|---|---|
| Get set up in five minutes | Quickstart |
| Understand the levels | Key levels, Call and put walls and Gamma flip |
| Learn what GEX is | Gamma exposure and Positive vs negative gamma |
| Learn the app | Workspace |
| See levels on your own charts | TradingView or MotiveWave |
| Ask an AI assistant about the levels | MCP server |
| Fix something | Troubleshooting |
What you get#
- Key levels: call and put walls ranked by strength, the gamma flip, the expected-move band and the day range, for every supported symbol.
- Dealer exposure: gamma, delta, vanna, charm and convexity by strike, as ladders, profiles and heatmaps.
- Flow: today's options flow, the live tape, order-flow aggression and how exposure is building through the session.
- Volatility: term structure, smile, skew, the surface and whether vol is rich or cheap.
- Macro and market: the economic calendar, rates, correlations, insider activity and weekly dark pool volume.
- Your platforms: the levels on TradingView and MotiveWave, chart snapshots in Discord, and your data in AI assistants.