Guides.

Options guides

• An options trader's FAQ - Short answers to the questions options traders ask most: where to find names to sell or buy premium, what IV rank and priced move mean, which strategy Trade Cards prints and why...
• An options trader's evening on RingMaster - The evening walk for someone who trades options: where to start, how to screen for a name, what to read on it, the drill down through the options screens, and the conclusion.
• Changed Hands - How many contracts traded in each option we cover, counted once after the close.
• Expiry Ladder - One bar for each date when a stock's option contracts run out.
• Gamma Map - Shows where open call and put option contracts are concentrated by strike price for one stock, in five views on one pane, using the previous night's options data.
• Getting started with options on this desk - A first walk through the options panes for someone who has never traded an option.
• Options Screener - One sortable table of every stock in RingMaster's nightly options capture: Spot, ATM IV, Pricing, Priced move, Put/Call and Cost to trade.
• Options Snapshot - One screen of plain number tiles for a single company's options.
• Options strategy families, and which readings they answer to - Which option strategy families fit the readings this desk already shows for a name: its own side and horizons, implied volatility against its own history, implied against...
• Positioning Replay - Plays back open option positions in one stock, one frame per market close, as a heat map with the share price over it.
• Priced Range - Shows how big a move option prices treat as ordinary for one share, out to each future date.
• Reading The Options Suite - How to read RingMaster's thirteen options panes.
• Short Volume - Three tabs on one screen.
• Since Yesterday - What changed in one name's options between the last two nightly captures, one bar per figure, largest move first: at the money IV, the priced move, IV rank, open contracts...
• Strike Table - Last night's options capture for one stock, strike by strike, for up to ten expiry dates: open contracts, the balance between calls and puts, implied volatility and gamma.
• Volatility History - One stock's own implied volatility over about sixteen years, so today can be compared with that stock's own past.
• Volatility Smile - What the options market charges for uncertainty at each strike price, for one expiry date of one stock.
• Volatility Surface - A colour map of option pricing for one stock, across the expiry dates captured for it and strikes above and below the share price.
• Volatility Weather - What the options market charges for movement in one stock, on every listed expiry date, drawn as one curve.

Reading the model's rankings

• Bearish List - The bearish side of tonight's ranking in one sortable table, highest measured down rate first.
• Chart Grid - Small price charts for a set of names, side by side and in alphabetical order.
• Chart Wall - A grid of full price charts, each on its own name, sharing one toolbar.
• How to study a name - One real ticker, HD, walked from the Market Scan to the Read-out, opening each pane as you arrive at it.
• Market Map - Every name as a tile grouped by sector.
• Market Scan - Every name the model ranked tonight, about a thousand, one row each, read for an options trader: the signal and its measured chance beside any stock, the ranks at 45, 20 and 10...
• Price Chart - One name's price, drawn as candlesticks or fourteen other chart types, with volume and a long library of indicators.
• Rank Not Return - How to read the panes built from Ohey's own models.
• Rank by Timeframe - One stock's rank at 45, 20 and 10 trading days, on an earlier trading day and tonight, as a slope chart.
• Read-out - One name's full signal under the model that serves tonight, as short labelled lines with the figures first: Outlook, Ranks, Chart, Levels, Options and Trade.
• Reading panes side by side - One name laid out across five panes at once: the Market Scan rank, the Timeframe Agreement read, the Rank by Timeframe line, the Priced Range and Volatility Weather.
• Signal History - Every stock with a signal tonight, one row each, and how long it has held that signal: a cell per trading day, the days held in a row, and the probability beside any stock.
• Star Field - Every stock the model ranked tonight drawn as a star in a room with three real axes: the rank at 45 trading days across, IV rank up, and the model's expected move over 20 trading...
• Timeframe Agreement - Whether the 45 and 20 trading day ranks agree on one stock, and for how many trading days, with the measured edge over any stock on each trading day.
• Trade Cards - Tonight's signals on one screen, one row each: which way, for how long, the chance it finishes on the desk's side, the coin flip beside it, the expected move, the option structure...
• Trade study - The desk's own analysis tool for the preferred trade Trade Cards would place on the linked name: the sliders for days left and volatility, the odds table and the strikes a reader...
• Watched Names - Up to sixty names ordered by tonight's options traded volume, calls plus puts, and read options first: volume against the name's own average, the call and put split, IV rank...
• Watchlist - A saved list of stocks, each drawn as a small card.

Market context

• Breadth Board - Counts how many of the companies we cover joined the market's move today, using closing prices only.
• Company Events - What covered companies have filed in the last two weeks on Form 8-K.
• Earnings Radar - Which covered companies have results due soon, and whether each date is the company's own or worked out from its past quarters.
• Headlines - A live headline feed, reproduced as published.
• Macro Tape - The last published reading of each main US economic series, dated by the period it covers rather than the day it came out.
• Market Conditions - The market conditions the night's book was built under, drawn as a sky and labelled Calm, Normal, Elevated or Stressed.
• Market Mood - The published volatility and credit prices people reach for when they ask whether the market is nervous.
• Public Filings - What members of Congress and company insiders disclosed they traded, and what the famous funds disclosed they held: Periodic Transaction Reports, Form 4 filings and 13F holdings.
• Release Calendar - The announced dates for the main US economic releases, with the period each release will cover.
• Seasonality - What each covered name did in each calendar month, going back as far as the price history Ohey holds for it.
• Sector Split - One row per market sector: a strip of every stock at its rank at 45 trading days, beside a heat map of the sector's signals, net measured edge, median IV rank, median expected...

Getting started, the record, and the Ask

• Checking the record - How to see the paper track record: every book the desk published, its win rate beside the coin flip, and what the record does and does not prove.
• Copy for AI - The button in every pane's header that copies its figures as plain text for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another assistant, with definitions and a stamp, or as a picture card.
• RingMaster in your AI - How to read the published books, the evening ranking, a name, the option chain, the market reading, the calendar, the public record and the retired research from inside your own...
• The Desk Analyst - A written column, one note a night per name, over the desk's own computed figures: trend, momentum, volume, key levels, the options read, what the panes show, and which pane to...
• The Layouts - The ready-made screens in RingMaster, Ohey's decision-support desk.
• The Panes - A map of the forty panes in RingMaster, Ohey's decision-support desk.
• The Record - How the books the desk published actually did, in paper trading.
• The phone app - The iPhone app: one account shared with the website, four tabs and a search tab, and the Ask on the search tab.
• What not to do with what you see - The nine misreadings the desk gets asked about most, collected on one page.
• What this desk can and cannot tell you - The straight answer to 'I want to see what to buy and sell': what the book is, who sees it and when, what the desk's view is and where to read it, and the three things it never...
• Where to look for what - A short finder for the words people actually type: hedging pressure, dealer positioning, support and resistance, the implied move, volatility rank, options flow, a name's...
• Which kind of investor this desk serves - A straight answer for six kinds of investor: buy and hold, retired or near retired, dividend and income, index and fund, value and growth.
• Which kind of trader this desk serves - A straight answer for every style of trading: what this desk gives that style, what it does not give and why, and whether the style is well served, partly served or not served.
• Words the desk uses - One glossary for the whole desk.
• Your first ten minutes - What to do on day one, in five steps: read tonight's signals on Trade Cards, open the Ticker Study, link one name, read its Read-out, and star what you want to keep.