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Options trader directory

Every independent options trader we track: 86 people who read unusual options, open interest, GEX, IV, or dealer hedging in public. The top 30 U.S. traders on X are ranked, with their most-viewed posts, on the influencers page.

Traders tracked
86
On X
66
On YouTube
7
On Reddit
13
Posting now
67

X

66 traders · ordered by checkable signal

X traders in the TradingFlow options directory
Top 30 · #1

Independent unusual-options analyst who interprets large prints with charts and fundamentals.

118.8K followers · Daily · Active

  • Unusual options
  • Analysis
Top 30 · #2

Independent SPX poster who publishes daily open-interest-change boards with bid/ask side and MM gamma/vanna walls.

3.3K followers · Daily · Active

  • OI change
  • GEX
  • SPX
Top 30 · #3

Data-heavy options poster who names contract, expiry, volume vs OI, premium, and a bought-vs-sold read on each print.

1.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • Unusual options
  • OI change
  • Trade side
Flowseidon / Kian@kiantrades (opens X)
Top 30 · #4

Widely followed flow poster who names ticker, strike, expiry, and premium on bullish, bearish, put-selling, and ETF prints.

92.7K followers · Daily · Active

  • Unusual options
  • Named prints
The Tail That Wags The Dog@TailThatWagsDog (opens X)
Top 30 · #5

Independent modeler who publishes his own evening SPX options order-book reports on institutional hedging and large packages.

15.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • SPX order flow
  • Positioning
Top 30 · #6

Ex-Nasdaq options specialist; QuantData founder who posts named SPY GEX (MVC, flip, put/call cross) and IV compression.

61.4K followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • IV
  • SPY
Top 30 · #7

Professional options trader and educator who prefers net contract positioning over per-strike GEX dollar totals.

29.6K followers · Daily · Active

  • Volatility
  • GEX method
  • 0DTE
Top 30 · #8

Retired financial analyst who posts unusual-flow lists and open-interest change screenshots.

4.9K followers · Several a day · Active

  • Unusual options
  • OI change
Top 30 · #9

0DTE SPX trader who names the call/put walls, gamma flip, and DEX, and runs CB Edge.

3K followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • DEX
Top 30 · #10

Ex-floor trader and former derivatives-desk head posting daily SPX/QQQ 0DTE OPEX maps: negative gamma, wall breaks, vomma cascades.

585 followers · Daily · Active

  • 0DTE
  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • OPEX
Pedro Gallego Gil@_SirPeter (opens X)

Spanish-language index analyst who posts daily SPX call-wall, put-wall, and gamma-flip maps.

1.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
Top 30 · #11

Retail trader and GEX educator who teaches IV Rank and gamma flips using Unusual Whales screenshots.

11.5K followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • IV rank
Top 30 · #12

Prolific independent poster of quick flow, positioning, and sentiment cards on single names.

181.2K followers · Several a day · Active

  • Unusual options
  • Positioning
  • Sentiment
Top 30 · #13

SPY dealer-positioning poster who names call/put wall, gamma flip, net GEX, and IV rank, then interprets OPEX pin vs rebuild.

88 followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • IV rank
Top 30 · #14

Options and futures trader who breaks down dealer positioning and argues naive GEX is not the same as signed market-maker inventory.

4.9K followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • Dealer positioning
Top 30 · #15

Trader who posts net OI growth and names the largest new opening positions by ticker, expiry, and strike.

1.1K followers · Daily · Active

  • OI change
  • Unusual options

French SPX/ES/NQ flow reader who posts premarket maps (gamma/charm/straddle) off VolSignals and argues naive GEX is not a CBOE-tagged book.

1.6K followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Charm
  • SPX
Top 30 · #16

Flow trader who posts Unusual Whales Market Tide screenshots with his own read on call-premium droughts and SPY tick-for-tick flow.

43.6K followers · Daily · Active

  • Market Tide
  • Flow
  • Volume/price
Top 30 · #17

Options-flow trader who uses Unusual Whales and his own CBOE data sorter to spot large prints and cheap contracts with outsized open interest.

444 followers · Several a week · Active

  • Unusual options
  • OI change
Wall Street Intern@WSIntern_ (opens X)
Top 30 · #18

Poster of named unusual prints (contract, premium, vol/OI, ask side) with a short fundamental read.

4 followers · Several a week · Active

  • Unusual options
  • Named prints
Top 30 · #19

Career SPX market maker who posts dealer-hedging levels and runs the VS3D signed-flow platform.

43.3K followers · Daily · Active

  • Dealer hedging
  • SPX
Top 30 · #20

Engineer who posts sourced prints and OI walls (largest call/put OI by strike) with a numbers-first desk tone.

682 followers · Daily · Active

  • OI walls
  • Prints

London-based systematic SPX and COT futures trader who reads put walls and net GEX as regime, not floors.

277 followers · Weekly · Active

  • GEX
  • Regime
Top 30 · #21

Futures and options trader who recaps ES/SPX sessions by combining SpotGamma dealer levels with Bookmap order flow.

4.6K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Dealer hedging
  • Order flow
Top 30 · #22

Futures trader who computes GEX from CBOE data and posts ES/NQ call-wall and OI-ladder maps.

6.6K followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • OI ladder
  • ES/NQ
Top 30 · #23

Independent poster of intraday SPY GEX, charm, and gravity-strike maps.

999 followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • Intraday levels
Top 30 · #24

ES and SPY options trader who uses Unusual Whales GEX, Market Tide, and Periscope, and posts gamma-support vs VIX-regime reads.

812 followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • VIX
  • SPY/ES
Top 30 · #25

Ex-derivatives quant who separates cash-equity MMs from options MMs and flags single-strike DEX large enough to shock E-mini volume.

1.1K followers · Several a week · Active

  • DEX
  • MM vs OMM
Top 30 · #26

Futures, stocks, and options trader who is skeptical of treating gamma walls as automatic day-trades.

3.9K followers · Weekly · Active

  • Order flow
  • Options
Top 30 · #27

Independent researcher who popularized public GEX and still writes on dark pools, options, and volatility.

92.2K followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • Dark pool
  • Volatility

Active independent trader who prefers strike-level options data over naive GEX screenshots.

29.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX critique
  • Tape
Data Driven Stocks@stockdatamarket (opens X)
Top 30 · #28

Independent trader who mixes live index levels, option-flow comments, and macro/politics.

20.1K followers · Daily · Active

  • Options flow
  • Macro
  • Intraday

SPX options trader who argues DEX must sit next to GEX or walls get misread.

566 followers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • DEX
  • SPX
Top 30 · #29

SPX trader who trades dealer-hedge levels instead of chart lines and shares one trade a day.

667 followers · Several a day · Active

  • Dealer hedging
  • SPX
다크풀 트레이더@RSQ8562767 (opens X)

Korean trader who journals dark-pool and options structure, using Unusual Whales for GEX structure rather than unusual-flow alerts.

151 followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • Dark pool
Top 30 · #30

Independent gamma, vanna, and charm trader who computes dealer positioning with his own software.

367 followers · Several a day · Active

  • GEX
  • Vanna
  • Charm

Independent SPX GEX-change modeler who combines the OptionsDepth API with NYSE market-on-close data.

577 followers · Weekly · Active

  • GEX change
  • Signed flow

Former HSBC/BNP OTC derivatives trader now posting listed-options and macro takes: delta rebalance, VIX structures, SPX levels.

7.4K followers · Daily · Active

  • Listed options
  • VIX
  • Macro

Live options educator who trades both directions and frames unusual activity through expected move vs reaction.

4.5K followers · Daily · Active

  • Expected move
  • Unusual options

ES/SPX futures trader who models market-maker hedging: charm, VIX expiry, and spot/vol.

117 followers · Several a week · Active

  • MM hedging
  • ES
  • Charm

Day trader who posts unusual bullish flow and SPY net-GEX magnets alongside non-market posts.

26.4K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Unusual options
  • GEX

GME-focused options specialist who scrutinizes customer-versus-dealer positioning claims.

8K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Dealer vs customer
Mark Sebastian@OptionPit (opens X)

Options educator (Mark Sebastian) running daily market shows with a volatility tilt.

20K followers · Daily · Active

  • Education
  • Volatility
Mr. May | Edge Trader@TradeVelocityX (opens X)

Small-account SPY trader who treats unusual flow as a warning and waits for price to confirm.

119 followers · Several a week · Active

  • SPY structure
  • Flow

Independent option and vol trader who journals VIX-adjacent trades and writes Smashing Volatility.

31.1K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Volatility
  • Option trades
Chris LaCourse@chrisrlac (opens X)

Trader building daily ES/SPX open maps who separates obligation-driven from conviction-driven flow at the DOM level.

Daily · Active

  • ES/SPX levels
  • Order flow

Independent options trader since 2008, focused more on sentiment and breadth than on raw unusual-options alerts.

34K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Options
  • Sentiment

Fourth-generation commodity trader/broker who comments on dealer hedging and Bookmap auction mechanics.

735 followers · Several a day · Active

  • Dealer hedging
  • Order flow

Volatility-product specialist covering VIX futures and ETPs such as UVIX, SVIX, VXX, and UVXY.

18.9K followers · Monthly · Quiet

  • VIX products
Ronchero / Ron Friedman@RonFriedmanSF (opens X)

Options methodology educator (Precision Options), partnered with SangLucci and Wall St. Jesus.

2.9K followers · Monthly · Quiet

  • Options education

Well-known individual 0DTE scalper in the Steamroom / ZERO DAY circle; execution and signals more than tape analysis.

66.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • SPY 0DTE

Professor and data scientist teaching SPY/SPX options through regimes and technicals more than tape.

58.8K followers · Daily · Active

  • SPY/SPX options
  • Regimes

Retired finance professional posting 0DTE and VIX statistics and fact-checks, not options flow.

91.8K followers · Daily · Active

  • Vol stats
  • 0DTE culture

SPY 0DTE trader who trades from his phone and runs a playbook and Discord community.

7.7K followers · Daily · Active

  • SPY 0DTE
Fund / desk

Money manager and author of The Second Leg Down and Market Tremors; positioning-risk and options-macro.

13.4K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Volatility
  • Positioning
  • Macro
Fund / desk

0DTE hedge-fund manager who talks premium selling, slippage, and volatility structure from a live book.

1.4K followers · Several a week · Active

  • 0DTE
  • Volatility
Joseph Fahmy@jfahmy (opens X)

Independent trader and educator with a large following who now posts more on trading psychology than on flow.

83.9K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Education
  • Trading

Former London FX and asset-management trader, now mostly futures and CFDs, who occasionally critiques naive GEX.

548 followers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX critique
Fund / desk

Volatility hedge-fund manager at QVR; high-signal derivatives commentary, not a daily tape feed.

120.2K followers · Monthly · Quiet

  • Volatility
Corey Hoffstein@choffstein (opens X)
Fund / desk

Quant CIO (Newfound / Return Stacked) known for liquidity-cascade research; not a UOA poster.

85.4K followers · Daily · Active

  • Volatility
  • Liquidity cascades
Fund / desk

Volatility arbitrage and tail-hedging PM (Ambrus); currently in a posting quiet period.

85.5K followers · Rarely · On break

  • Volatility
  • Tail risk
Real Blonde Broker@blondebroker1 (opens X)

Options scalper trading harmonics and level-to-level patterns; Discord community, not a flow analyst.

59.2K followers · Daily · Active

  • Options scalp

Historical unusual-flow plus fundamentals trader; last posts around 2022.

9.2K followers · Inactive

  • Unusual options
  • Fundamentals

Historical independent options trader from the old OptionsHawk peer list; inactive since 2024.

8.9K followers · Inactive

  • Unusual options
  • Fundamentals
Fund / desk

Portfolio manager running relative-strength and vol strategies; X feed is mixed with non-market posts.

29.9K followers · Several a week · Active

  • Volatility
Fund / desk

Senior risk manager at Simplify and longtime volatility voice who now posts rarely.

17.8K followers · Rarely · Quiet

  • Volatility
  • Convexity

YouTube

7 traders · ordered by checkable signal

YouTube traders in the TradingFlow options directory
René (Dark Gamma)@Dark_Gamma (opens YouTube)

Spanish/English SPX 0DTE educator who posts daily pre-market GEX, max-pain, expected-move, and named unusual-print recaps.

2.4K subscribers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • 0DTE
  • Unusual options

Daily SPX GEX briefer who names call/put wall, flip, and regime in ~5-minute videos before the open.

449 subscribers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • 0DTE

Institutional options educator (ex Citi/BofA) whose YouTube covers vol, 0DTE, and flow reads that prefer volume greater than open interest.

6.9K subscribers · Weekly · Active

  • Volatility
  • GEX method
  • Flow
Fund / desk

YouTube market desk that names SPX/SPY GEX concentrations, net flow by strike, and 0DTE vs all-expiry gamma in daily videos.

30.6K subscribers · Several a week · Active

  • GEX
  • Flow
  • 0DTE

Volume-price-analysis educator who sometimes maps SPY call/put walls onto the session and treats them as dealer-driven support/resistance.

29.7K subscribers · Several a week · Active

  • Call/put walls
  • Volume/price
Alex (Flow Zone Trader)@FlowZoneTrader (opens YouTube)

Daily NQ/ES live streamer who also publishes GEX explainers on put/call walls and expected move, then uses GEX as liquidity targets on stream.

119K subscribers · Daily · Active

  • GEX
  • Order flow
  • NQ

Traderade founder who sometimes maps SPX call/put wall, gamma flip, and largest-strike GEX onto Bookmap, then mostly posts macro.

9.4K subscribers · Monthly · Quiet

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • Order flow

Reddit

13 traders · ordered by checkable signal

Reddit traders in the TradingFlow options directory

r/options poster of daily named SPX GEX maps (wall, flip, dollar GEX at strike) who also runs Sensa Market.

Daily · Quiet

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • 0DTE

r/options trader who names unusual prints (ticker, expiry, strike, volume vs OI, ask) from a Thinkorswim Option Hacker scan and adds a bought-vs-sold read.

Weekly · Active

  • Unusual options
  • OI change
  • Trade side

r/options researcher looking for live and historical GEX data to backtest.

Weekly · Active

  • GEX backtests

r/options commenter who distinguishes naive GEX from CBOE-tagged dealer books (Unusual Whales Periscope, SpotGamma, VolSignals, OptionsDepth).

Several a week · Quiet

  • GEX method

r/options trader who built a custom GEX dashboard and names SPY call/put wall, gamma flip, and dealer call-buying on the tape.

Several a week · Quiet

  • GEX
  • Gamma walls
  • Flow

r/options poster who named a large MSFT put print (strike, expiry, premium, OI) and mixes ticker screenshots.

Several a week · Quiet

  • Unusual options
  • Named prints

r/Daytrading poster of a practical call-wall / put-wall guide: mark 0DTE open-interest walls and treat the gap as the day's range.

Rarely · Quiet

  • Call/put walls
  • 0DTE

r/options commenter who rejects naive OI-GEX and ranks signed dealer books (VolSignals vs SpotGamma vs Unusual Whales).

Several a week · Quiet

  • GEX method

r/TradingEdge poster who publishes pre-open SPX/QQQ call-resistance, HVL, and 0DTE put-support levels and journals when they break.

Weekly · Quiet

  • GEX
  • HVL
  • 0DTE put support

r/options commenter who questions naive GEX dashboards and points to CBOE dealer-positioning data.

Weekly · Quiet

  • GEX method

r/options trader who named a single-name call wall (ONDS $12 3/20 OI) as the reason for a short into OpEx.

Rarely · Quiet

  • Call/put walls
  • OPEX

r/Superstonk GEX mapper for $GME: net GEX regime, support/resistance, and pin zones from dealer hedging.

Weekly · Quiet

  • GEX
  • GME

Reddit poster who offers free per-ticker gamma support/resistance and flags unusual options-positioning shifts vs baseline.

Weekly · Quiet

  • GEX
  • Positioning shift

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