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0–2 DTE index options

Futures Options Dashboard

The Options Dashboard's trade builder, tuned for short-dated options on the index futures.

Works on: QQQ for NQ / MNQ options · $SPX or SPY for ES / MES options

example
QUICK READ
🏄 GO DOG · 🔥 FIRED 10:42 @ 24,812
Put Credit Spread · 1 DTE
SELL 24,600 PUT · BUY 24,550 PUT
Session Stop 24,640 · holding
New York session · VIX rank low
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Futures Options Dashboard on QQQ for NQ options: a Bear Call Spread GO DOG with both legs, the Session Stop, and a warning when the max loss is bigger than today's limit.
Futures Options Dashboard on QQQ for NQ options: a Bear Call Spread GO DOG with both legs, the Session Stop, and a warning when the max loss is bigger than today's limit.
What it does

How Futures Options Dashboard works

Selling options on NQ and ES is a craft with a clock attached. This dashboard reads the matching index chain on your chart (QQQ for NQ and MNQ, $SPX or SPY for ES and MES) and turns it into a plan for the futures options, with the morning's line in the sand drawn for you.

  1. Short-dated focus

    It looks 0 to 2 days out by default, where index futures option sellers live, and blends the same-day and wider gamma maps.

    Quick Read: a Bear Call Spread GO DOG with its gates, the gamma read and a premium check.
    Quick Read: a Bear Call Spread GO DOG with its gates, the gamma read and a premium check.
  2. Session Stop

    The morning's line in the sand, from the first 15 minutes plus a volatility cushion. Close through it on heavy volume and bullish and range trades are off for the day: 🦈 SHARK SIGHTING (Sit Out Today).

    Market context: the Session Stop, the gamma levels, the Initial Balance and the expected move.
    Market context: the Session Stop, the gamma levels, the Initial Balance and the expected move.
  3. Knows the session

    The first hour's high and low, the opening range, and which session you're in: London, New York, Party Time or Midday Chop.

  4. Same engine, same discipline

    Strategy scoring, strike picking, sizing, grading and the exit ladder from the Options Dashboard, with 🔥 FIRED time and price on the GO DOG line.

    Structure Fit for 0–2 DTE: the top pick and the runners-up.
    Structure Fit for 0–2 DTE: the top pick and the runners-up.
    Trade Plan: legs in order, fill price, credit, max loss, Greeks, and a warning when the trade is bigger than today's limit.
    Trade Plan: legs in order, fill price, credit, max loss, Greeks, and a warning when the trade is bigger than today's limit.
Why traders like it

Calm on the board, whatever the ocean does.

A professional futures-options routine on a regular chart.

Wide buffers below support, sizing by the VIX, and a hard stop for the day.

It knows what time it is.

The Session Stop and session labels keep you from trading a market that has already turned.

After the close, it plans tomorrow.

Plans aren’t built on options that already settled.

Futures Options Dashboard$35.99/mo
  • 5-day free trial on the TrendSpider Store
  • Beginner, Intermediate and Pro views
  • A Coach that explains every call
  • Works on: QQQ for NQ / MNQ options · $SPX or SPY for ES / MES options
  • Pairs with In The Barrel (Options), just $2.99/mo
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Who it’s for

Traders who sell or spread options on NQ, MNQ, ES and MES.

New to it? Choose the Beginner view and paper trade the plans until the reasoning clicks. Here’s how to get started.

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