Bullflow tools documentation

Bullflow provides options flow, gamma exposure, dark pool, and alert tools for traders. This guide explains what each Terminal tool shows, how its controls work, and how to use tools together.

15 tools5 groups3 starting presets

Open Terminal

How the workspace behaves

Terminal is a freeform canvas. Add a tool, drag its title bar to move it, and resize it from the window edges. Ticker-aware tools can load their own symbol, while selections from Watchlist, Top Tickers, alerts, and flow rows can pass context into related tools.

Add only the tools needed for the current question.Start from Add Tool or a preset; additional copies are available where the workflow supports them.
Arrange the read from broad to specific.Put market-wide flow and alert feeds first, then ticker charts, contract detail, and execution.
Save distinct configurations for different jobs.Create, rename, and switch dashboard configurations instead of rebuilding one crowded workspace.

Start from a preset

Presets load a compact group of tools for a common workflow. They are starting points—you can still move, resize, remove, or add windows afterward.

Gamma Master

Gamma structure with the live tape beside it.

GEX Chart · Net GEX Heatmap · Net Premium · Options Flow

Flow Command

A broad flow read with the alerts producing it.

Options Flow · Flow Alerts · Market Flow Tide · Net Premium

Mix

Price, flow, dark-pool prints, and a personal symbol list.

GEX Chart · Options Flow · Dark Pool Flow · Watchlist

Documented tools

These tools follow the same five groups used by the Add Tool menu. Choose a tool for its job, then connect its output to the next layer of the decision.

Options6

Follow live contracts, study prior sessions, and move from a market-wide scan into one specific option.

Market2

Keep a compact read on the symbols and broad flow conditions that matter to the rest of your workspace.

GEX4

Read modeled dealer positioning by price, strike, expiration, and time.

Dark Pool2

Study reported off-exchange prints, then turn repeatable conditions into filters and alerts.

Other1

Act on the market context assembled elsewhere in the Terminal.

Options

Follow live contracts, study prior sessions, and move from a market-wide scan into one specific option.

Options Flow

A live options tape for screening individual trades as they arrive.

Use it when: Use it to find unusual premium, narrow the tape to a setup, or isolate one ticker or contract.
What it shows: Time, ticker, contract, spot, strike, execution price, trade size, premium, signal score, delta, volume, open interest, implied volatility, moneyness, return, and earnings context.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch for one ticker or clear the search to return to the full tape. An isolated contract also shows its underlying ticker beside the title.
Live summaryCalls/Puts shows the visible trade counts, while Bull/Bear shows the visible bullish and bearish premium totals.
DisplayFull Flow keeps the regular feed. Focus keeps sweeps of at least $50K and blocks of at least $100K while excluding high-volume symbols and bid-side executions.
Contract typeChoose All, Calls, or Puts.
ExecutionChoose All, Ask, or Bid.
Filter actionsReset clears the current ticker, contract, and filters; Filters opens or closes the detailed filter drawer.
Inside the tool: The filter drawer adds premium, size, volume, open-interest, volatility, moneyness, earnings, trade-type, and other ranges. Saved filters, custom alerts, grid sorting, and row actions support repeatable workflows.
Connect the read: A selected row can open Historical Flow, Net Premium, Option Chart, or Trade Terminal with the relevant context already loaded.

Top Tickers

A ranked view of the symbols standing out in the current options-flow feed.

Use it when: Use it when you want the tape summarized by ticker before opening a chart or filtering the full flow table.
What it shows: The leading symbols calculated from the live options-flow snapshot, using the display settings selected in the tool.
Title-bar settings: MetricRank by Volume, Premium, or Net Premium.
Ticker countShow the top 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 symbols.
Net directionWhen Net Premium is selected, Net Bullish/Bearish separates the directional sides instead of showing one combined value.
UniverseFilter ETFs removes exchange-traded funds; Sweeps only removes blocks.
Inside the tool: Select a bar to change the Terminal ticker. The chart also supports zooming and panning when the ranking contains more symbols than the current view.
Connect the read: Select a ticker to move the rest of the Terminal toward that symbol.

Historical Flow

The options-flow table for prior trading sessions and user-selected date ranges.

Use it when: Use it to check whether a current setup resembles earlier activity or to review a ticker after the session.
What it shows: Historical contracts with the same trade, premium, volume, open-interest, volatility, and signal context used in live flow.
Title-bar settings: Ticker searchEnter one ticker or a comma-separated list before loading the selected dates.
Multi-legInclude or exclude trades classified as multi-leg.
Date rangeChoose the historical trading days to request.
ActionsDownload exports the visible data, Reset clears filters, and Filters opens or closes the detailed filter drawer.
Inside the tool: The filter drawer provides the full historical-flow filter set. Grid sorting, saved alerts, and contract row actions remain available after the query loads.
Connect the read: Open charts and related tools from a historical contract without rebuilding the context by hand.

Option Chart

An option chain that opens into a continuously refreshed price chart for one contract.

Use it when: Use it to examine the contract itself after flow, an alert, or another tool points to it.
What it shows: The selected option contract’s price history, with the originating trade price and time when that context is available.
Title-bar settings: Before selectionThe contract settings remain in the option chain until a contract chart is opened.
BackReturn from the selected contract chart to the option chain.
ChartSwitch between Vol/OI and Premium.
RangeChoose 1D, 2D, 3D, 7D, 14D, 1M, 3M, or 1Y.
BucketFor the Premium view, group trades into 10-minute, 30-minute, or 1-hour bars.
EntryShow or hide the originating trade marker when the chart was opened with trade context.
Inside the tool: The option chain accepts ticker, strike, and expiration hints; filters All, Calls, or Puts; sorts by flow, expiration, Vol/OI multiplier, IV, or volume; and can isolate a contract in Options Flow.
Connect the read: Send the selected contract back to Options Flow to see the surrounding tape.

Net Premium

A time-series comparison of net call premium and net put premium for one underlying.

Use it when: Use it to see whether premium pressure is building, fading, or diverging while price moves.
What it shows: Call and put net-premium series aligned through time, together with the underlying-price context used by the chart.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch for the underlying shown by this window.
PeriodChoose 1D, 2D, 3D, 7D, 1M, 3M, 1Y, or MAX.
Multi-legTurn multi-leg trades on or off.
Sweeps onlyLimit the calculation to sweeps instead of all supported trades.
InfoThe information control explains that net premium subtracts bid-side premium from ask-side premium.
Inside the tool: Hover the chart to compare call premium, put premium, and the underlying price at the same point in time.
Connect the read: Pair it with Options Flow to move from aggregate pressure into the contracts producing it.

Flow Alerts

The live match feed for custom alerts created from Options Flow filters.

Use it when: Use it when a filtered flow setup should come to you instead of requiring constant manual scanning.
What it shows: Contracts that match your saved flow-alert conditions as those matches arrive.
Title-bar settings: Ticker searchOpen a ticker field to filter matches; the same action clears an active ticker filter.
NotificationsEnable or disable browser desktop notifications for alert matches.
My alertsSwitch between the live match feed and the editor for saved alerts.
TopicsFilter the feed by urgent, Bullflow, position builder, custom, Discord, grenade, or sizable alert topics.
Inside the tool: Select a match to load its option contract and originating trade context into connected Terminal tools.
Connect the read: Select a match to load that contract into the Terminal’s chart and flow context.

Market

Keep a compact read on the symbols and broad flow conditions that matter to the rest of your workspace.

Watchlist

Saved symbol lists with live prices and percentage changes.

Use it when: Use it as the navigation layer for the names you follow throughout the day.
What it shows: Symbol, latest price, and percentage change, with visible price updates as quotes refresh.
Title-bar settings: Watchlist menuSwitch lists or choose New watchlist, Rename, or Delete. At least one watchlist is always retained.
Add tickerOpen the ticker entry row for adding one symbol or a comma-separated batch.
Inside the tool: Sort the active list, remove symbols, drag rows to reorder them, and select a row to update ticker-aware Terminal tools.
Connect the read: Select any row to point ticker-aware tools at that symbol.

Market Flow Tide

A market-wide chart of net call premium versus net put premium.

Use it when: Use it to check whether broad options activity is leaning toward calls, puts, or neither before studying a single ticker.
What it shows: Paired call and put premium series across the selected rolling window.
Title-bar settings: RangeChoose the latest 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or ALL available intraday data.
TradesChoose All trades or Sweeps.
Inside the tool: Hover the chart to inspect the call and put values at a specific time. Changing either title-bar setting recalculates the displayed series.
Connect the read: Move into Top Tickers or Options Flow when you need to identify what is driving the aggregate line.

GEX

Read modeled dealer positioning by price, strike, expiration, and time.

GEX Chart

A configurable candlestick chart that layers gamma structure and other Bullflow market context over price.

Use it when: Use it as the main visual workspace for connecting price action with GEX levels, unusual flow, and dark-pool activity.
What it shows: Candles, selectable GEX channel or bubble overlays, unusual-flow markers, dark-pool context, indicators, and the chart readout at the inspected candle.
Title-bar settings: Ticker and quoteSearch for a ticker; the current price and percentage change appear beside the title.
IntervalChoose 1m, 3m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, or 8h where supported by the selected timeframe.
TimeframeChoose 1D, 2D, 3D, 1W, 1M, 3M, 1Y, or 5Y. Changing the interval can also move the chart to a compatible timeframe.
ExtendedTurn premarket and after-hours candles on or off.
ReplayOpen or close bar-replay controls for the loaded candle history.
IndicatorsToggle SMA 10/20/50/200, EMA 20, Bollinger Bands, VWAP or Session TWAP, AVWAP, RSI 14, Prior Day High/Low, and Net Options Delta.
GEXClick the main control to cycle Channels, Bubbles, and Off. Use its menu to show 3, 5, 10, or 15 GEX levels.
Dark PoolTurn dark-pool levels on or off and choose the top 3, 5, 10, or 15 levels.
FlowTurn unusual-flow markers on or off and choose 3, 5, 10, or 15 visible contracts.
Inside the tool: The drawing toolbar supports selecting, placing, undoing, deleting, and clearing drawings. Replay provides play or pause, restart, jump-to-end, and 1x, 2x, 4x, or 8x speed controls. Select a flow marker to open its contract context.
Connect the read: Open a flow marker’s contract, then compare the surrounding structure in Net GEX Heatmap or GEX Levels.

Net GEX Heatmap

A strike-and-expiration map of gamma or vanna exposure.

Use it when: Use it to see where exposure is concentrated and how that structure changes across expirations.
What it shows: Exposure intensity across the strike/expiration grid, with optional change since the open or previous close.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch for the underlying used by this heatmap.
Index expirationsFor supported indexes, switch between Standard and Weeklies contracts.
ExposureSwitch between Gamma and Vanna.
Replay / LiveLoad a historical Gamma session, then return to the live heatmap when finished.
Net changeShow percentage change Since open or Since Previous Close; Hide % Change returns to absolute exposure.
Color SchemeChoose Green/Red or Cyan/Violet.
Inside the tool: During replay, use the session date, previous/play/next buttons, playback speed, position slider, and timestamp. The heatmap itself can be recentered around the strikes and expirations you want to inspect.
Connect the read: Use GEX Levels for a simpler ranked view, or GEX Chart to compare the concentrations with price.

GEX Levels

A focused gamma-exposure chart aggregated by strike or by expiration.

Use it when: Use it when the full heatmap is more detail than you need and you want the largest concentrations quickly.
What it shows: Positive and negative gamma totals for the selected ticker, with spot-centered strike navigation.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch for the underlying shown by the chart.
Chart typeStrike groups gamma by strike; Expiration groups it by expiration date.
FilterIn Strike mode, choose All Expirations or one expiration. In Expiration mode, choose All Strikes or one strike.
Inside the tool: Zoom and pan the visible strike or expiration range. The chart keeps call, put, and net gamma aligned to the same selected slice.
Connect the read: Compare the largest level with GEX Chart, then check Options Flow for activity near that strike.

GEX Setups

A sortable feed of live gamma-structure alerts.

Use it when: Use it to monitor level interactions and other GEX conditions across the market or a chosen watchlist.
What it shows: Alert time, ticker, setup type, spot, node level, and expiration context.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch for one ticker or leave the field empty to monitor the broader feed.
AboutExplains the approach-to-node and largest-node-move conditions represented in the feed.
WatchlistShow All alerts or apply one of your saved watchlists.
Saved filtersLoad a saved filter, update it with the current view, or delete it.
View actionsReset returns filters and sorting to their defaults; Filters opens or closes the detailed filter drawer.
Inside the tool: Use the filter drawer for setup-specific conditions, then sort the columns or save the resulting view for reuse. Selecting a row updates the Terminal ticker.
Connect the read: Select a ticker to move directly into its GEX Chart and current level structure.

Dark Pool

Study reported off-exchange prints, then turn repeatable conditions into filters and alerts.

Dark Pool Flow

A live table of dark-pool prints with size and market context.

Use it when: Use it to find large off-exchange activity, isolate a ticker, or screen for prints that meet a repeatable condition.
What it shows: Ticker, price, size, notional value, daily-volume share, condition labels, signal score, volume, and market capitalization where available.
Title-bar settings: TickerSearch to isolate one symbol or clear the ticker to return to the full print feed.
Ticker metricsWhen a ticker is isolated, the title bar can show its 30D Avg, Last Day, 365D Max, and Active Level summary.
Filter actionsClear filters resets the current ticker and filter state; Filters opens or closes the detailed filter drawer.
Inside the tool: The filter drawer covers condition labels, dates, price, size, notional value, volume, daily-volume percentage, signal score, and ticker lists. Save a view as a reusable filter or alert, and sort the grid to inspect the largest prints.
Connect the read: Compare a print with GEX Chart and Options Flow instead of reading an isolated transaction on its own.

Dark Pool Alerts

The match feed for custom alerts saved from Dark Pool Flow.

Use it when: Use it to monitor a defined print profile without leaving the full dark-pool table open.
What it shows: Recent matches from your saved dark-pool alert conditions.
Title-bar settings: Manage alertsUse the pencil control to switch between recent matches and saved-alert management, then use it again to return to matches.
Inside the tool: Select a matched ticker to update connected Terminal tools. In saved-alert management, rename or delete alerts and review a compact summary of each alert’s filters.
Connect the read: Open the ticker in Dark Pool Flow to see the match alongside nearby prints and ticker metrics.

Other

Act on the market context assembled elsewhere in the Terminal.

Trade Terminal

A connected Public brokerage surface for option orders, positions, and working orders.

Use it when: Use it when a selected option contract is ready to move from analysis into an order ticket.
What it shows: Trade entry, current positions, and order status for the connected account.
Title-bar settings: Window controlsTrade Terminal has no tool-specific title-bar settings beyond closing the window. The active contract is supplied by the tool that opened the ticket.
Inside the tool: Inside the tool, switch among Trade, Positions, and Orders; configure buy or sell order details; start an order from a position; and show or hide account amounts.
Connect the read: Contracts selected elsewhere in Terminal can populate the order form automatically; a Public connection is required for account actions.