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Section-by-Section Guide:
Overview
The Overview page provides a single-glance view across all 21 futures instruments, organised by market regime. It is not a watchlist. It is a cross-asset situational-awareness screen designed to orient the trader to the dominant regime before they open any individual instrument page.
The Overview is a starting point, not a substitute for the per-instrument detail page. It tells you which corner of the futures complex deserves your attention this morning, and which instruments are showing alignment or divergence with the regime.
It is divided into two regime groups: Risk On and Risk Off / Defensive. The grouping reflects how institutional capital tends to rotate between asset classes based on macro sentiment, geopolitical events, and economic data flow.
Instrument Card
Each instrument on the Overview is displayed as a self-contained card. The card contains five elements: News Sentiment gauge, Market Sentiment gauge, a price line chart, a Risk Calendar strip, and a Geopolitical Risk bar. Together these give an instant read on the instrument without clicking through to the detail page.
News Sentiment Gauge - The News Sentiment gauge reflects the prevailing tone of overnight and pre-session news coverage specific to that instrument. The needle ranges from bearish (red, left) through neutral (centre) to bullish (blue, right). It answers a single question: based on what the financial press, wire services, and credible social-media sources are saying about this instrument right now, what is the prevailing narrative?
Market Sentiment Gauge - Market sentiment reflects what participants are doing with their money, positioning, options flow, and recent price behaviour. The gauge synthesises the deterministic FLO Score (described in detail in Part 2, Section 6) with recent price action into a single needle. It answers the question: regardless of what the news is saying, where is money actually moving?
Flow Sentiment Gauge - To determine the market sentiment we use 4 factors news, eco, price change, momentum (yesterday close compare with 14-day ATR)
Price Chart - A compact recent-price line chart sits below the gauges. The chart is for orientation, is the instrument trending, ranging, near recent highs or lows, not for technical analysis.
Risk Calendar Strip - A small risk-calendar strip sits below the chart on each card. It plots the upcoming session's scheduled events, economic releases, central-bank speakers, policy announcements, colour-coded by potential impact for that specific instrument. A glance at the strip tells the trader whether this instrument is sitting into a quiet session or a heavy one, and roughly when the risk windows fall.
Geopolitical Risk Bar - A colour-coded bar at the bottom of the card shows the current geopolitical risk level, scoped to that specific instrument. This is not a generic global-risk indicator. It reflects assessed geopolitical factors that directly affect the instrument: sanctions and supply disruptions for crude oil, trade-policy escalation for soybeans, central-bank divergence for currencies, sovereign-debt stress for European indices, and so on.
Instrument Detail Page
Clicking into any instrument from the Overview opens its detail page.
This is the core of MI Alpha: every panel exists to answer a specific question a trader needs answered before the session opens.
Executive Summary Header
The header sits at the top of the page and provides four condensed briefing blocks: the Overnight Summary (what happened while you slept), the Action Plan (how the day is likely to unfold and what to do about it), the Flow & Positioning summary (where money is sitting and how it has been moving), and the Geopolitical Risk assessment. A colour-coded sentiment badge, Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral, gives the overall directional read in one word. A generation timestamp confirms exactly when the analysis was produced.
The header is the part of the page a trader can read first thing in the morning, in under a minute, and walk away with the framework for the session even if they look at nothing else.
Key Metrics Strip
Six metrics appear in a single strip across the page: Previous Close, Net Change (in ticks, from prior open to prior close), ATR (the 14-day Average True Range), Net GEX, Speculators positioning (with directional badge), and Commercials positioning (with directional badge). Each metric carries a one-line sub-label explaining context. For example, "Short γ, amplifies" under Net GEX tells the trader the gamma regime in two words.
What each metric is and how to read it:
Previous Close - The prior session's closing price. The reference point for net change and the anchor for any "how far have we moved overnight" question.
Net Change - The prior session's open-to-close move, in ticks. Useful for sizing today against yesterday's realised range, a 451-tick move yesterday in 6E is unusually large and conditions today's expectations.
ATR (14) - The 14-day Average True Range. The trader's baseline for "what is a normal day in this instrument." Stops, targets, and intraday range expectations should all be anchored to ATR. A position sized so that a 1×ATR adverse move triggers an unacceptable loss is over-sized regardless of conviction.
Net GEX - The dealer net gamma exposure summed across the options chain. The single most useful number on the strip for understanding how the session will trade. Negative (short γ) implies dealer hedging amplifies moves. Positive (long γ) implies dealer hedging dampens them. Part 3 of this guide explains the mechanics in full; for the strip, the sub-label tells the trader the regime in two words.
Speculators - The latest CFTC Commitments-of-Traders large-spec net position, with a directional badge (BULL / BEAR / FLAT) reflecting the multi-week trajectory. The badge is computed from the COT trajectory data shown in the 12-week positioning chart further down the page.
Commercials - The corresponding commercial (hedger) net position, also with a directional badge. Commercials hedge real underlying business exposure (an airline hedging fuel, a grain merchant hedging crop, a corporate treasurer hedging FX). Their flow is informational about underlying business reality.
Sentiment Gauges
The detail page presents the same News Sentiment, Market Sentiment and Flow Sentiment gauges from the Overview card.
Geopolitical Risk Panel
The Geopolitical Risk Panel contains a colour-coded severity bar, a numerical risk level, and a written assessment naming the specific factors driving the rating today. Each factor is linked to its potential impact on the specific instrument, this is not generic global news, it is instrument-specific risk analysis.
Risk Timeline
The Risk Timeline is a horizontal strip showing every scheduled economic release, central-bank speech, and policy announcement for the upcoming session, plotted against time of day. Events are colour-coded by likely impact, green/low, amber/medium, red/high, and a vertical "current time" line moves left to right through the day, so the trader can immediately see which events have passed, which is happening now, and which are still ahead.
The events on the timeline are filtered for relevance: e.g. Bank of England press conference does not appear on the soybeans timeline. The timeline is per-instrument.
Overnight Summary
The Overnight Summary is a written narrative explaining what happened in the markets while the trader was away. It covers overnight price action, the key drivers behind that price action, the macro themes in play, and cross-market dynamics relevant to the instrument. It is not a list of headlines, it is a coherent narrative that ties events together and explains why prices moved. Session themes for the upcoming day, a strategic frame, and the key risk factors that could invalidate that frame are included alongside.
Price History Chart
A multi-month price-history chart with technical context overlays sits centrally on the page. The chart shows recent price action, ATR bands giving the volatility envelope, and structural reference levels (recent swing highs/lows, the gamma flip, prior session high and low). It is the visual anchor for the overnight summary and the action plan: where is price sitting relative to the recent range, recent extremes, and the structural levels that matter for today.
Action Plan
The Action Plan is the structured framework for the trading session. It synthesises the overnight summary, positioning data, scheduled events, and structural levels into a specific plan: how the day is likely to unfold, when to be active, what the key pivots are, and what would change the thesis. It includes specific price levels, event windows, and conditional logic ("if PPI surprises hot, expect amplified moves above the call wall; if PPI cools, expect a fade back toward the gamma flip").
It is important that the Action Plan does not tell the trader what to trade. It frames the session and pre-maps responses to scenarios. The trader still has to decide whether to participate, where, with what size, and when to exit. The plan is structure; execution is the trader's.
Risk Calendar and Outcome Paths
The Risk Calendar is the time-ordered, written companion to the Risk Timeline strip. Each entry lists the time, country, event name, and, critically, colour-coded impact tags that describe specific potential outcomes for that event. A wholesale-prices release does not just appear as "wholesale prices, medium impact." It appears with explicit outcome paths: "prices rise, demand strong" (green up arrow); "prices fall, growth slows" (red down arrow); each linked to a likely market reaction chain.
What "outcome paths" actually means:
Take a CPI release as an example. The calendar does not just say "CPI release at 13:30, high impact." It says, in effect: if CPI prints meaningfully above consensus, expect dollar strength, treasuries lower, equities lower, gold mixed, Euro lower; if CPI prints meaningfully below consensus, expect the opposite chain.
For any given instrument the calendar shows the chain that applies to that instrument. The trader does not have to construct the reaction map mentally on the fly.
Note - this ONLY shows events for that instrument.
Flows & Positioning
The Flows section synthesises three structural data sources, CFTC Commitments-of-Traders data, options open interest, and net options gamma, into a single narrative paragraph with a directional badge (Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral). It also publishes an integer that quantifies the overall positioning read in a way that can be tracked and compared over time. The narrative explains not just what positioning looks like in absolute terms, but what it implies for likely price behaviour given the regime.
COT 12-Week Positioning
•Spec long / Spec short / Comm long / Comm short — Weekly bars for the 12-week window.
•Total net — The combined net position line.
•Open interest — Dashed line, right-hand scale — shows whether money is entering or leaving the market.
12-Week Option Positioning
A multi-chart view of options-market activity over the trailing 12 weeks.
The panel shows the Put/Call ratio trend, total Open Interest change, and Participation metrics (whether new money is entering the market or existing positions are being closed). A directional-bias indicator, Bullish lean, Bearish lean, Neutral, synthesises the signals into a single read.
The chart breaks positioning down by Speculator Long, Speculator Short, Commercial Long, Commercial Short, and Total Net.
Options Walls
A detailed table showing Put Wall support levels (left column) and Call Wall resistance levels (right column), each derived from options open interest.
Each level shows the price, the OI concentration at that strike, and a significance indicator. A directional-lean badge, Bullish lean / Bearish lean / Neutral, synthesises the overall walls structure (whether put walls are clustered tight below the market or stretched far below, whether call walls are stacking near current price or above the recent high).
You can download the levels in .csv and upload into daytradr.
Related News
A chronologically ordered feed of news headlines directly relevant to the instrument. Each headline is timestamped, colour-coded by source type and impact (red for urgent/breaking, yellow for significant, white/neutral for standard), and includes a direct link to the source article. Headlines span wire services, financial press, central-bank communications, and credible social-media sources, X posts from named, credible accounts appear alongside Reuters, Bloomberg, and the FT.
The feed is curated, not raw. The same instrument-specific query set that powers the News Sentiment gauge populates this list, with sources scored for credibility and headlines scored for impact. The feed is the trader's curated audit trail: every claim made elsewhere in the page (in the overnight summary, in the geopolitical-risk panel, in the action plan) traces back to specific headlines visible here.
Scheduled Events
A comprehensive table of every scheduled economic release and event for the session, showing time, country, indicator name, the actual result (once released), the consensus estimate, and the previous reading. Colour-coded dots indicate whether the event has occurred (with beat/miss colour coding) or is upcoming. This is the data companion to the Risk Calendar's narrative view: the calendar tells you what could happen; the Scheduled Events table records what has happened.
Gamma Exposure Section
The Gamma Exposure section contains three components:
The summary metrics block:
Net GEX - The single-number summary computed exactly as described in Section 3.4. The sign tells the trader the regime; the magnitude tells them roughly how much dealer hedging flow per percentage move to expect. The sub-label ("Short γ, amplifies" or "Long γ, dampens") states the regime in two words so the reader does not have to translate the sign mentally.
Gamma Flip price - The price level where Net GEX crosses zero. This is the regime boundary explained in Section 3.5, the magnet from above, the trampoline from below. Trader's most useful pre-session reference: where am I sitting relative to the flip, and how far would price have to move to cross it.
Regime label -
The Gamma Exposure Profile - A chart of Net GEX as a function of price, plotted across a wide enough range to capture the flip and the structure on both sides. The curve makes it visible: where does the dampening zone start, where does the amplifying zone start, and how steep is the transition through the flip. A flat curve near the flip means the regime change is gradual; a steep curve means it happens quickly across a small price range.
Together they answer three questions a trader needs answered before the session: what regime are we in right now, where does that regime change (the flip), and where is the dealer hedging concentrated (the strikes).
GEX by Strike
A horizontal bar chart showing the gamma contribution of each strike, separated into call gamma (positive) and put gamma (negative on the chart for visual contrast, though the underlying convention treats them on the same axis).
This is where the trader can see, instrument by instrument, which strikes are doing the most work in the dealer book.
Key GEX Levels
•Gamma support — Price levels with the largest positive gamma below or near price, each with its size (example: 7675.00 / 5.3M). Ranked by size.
•Gamma resistance — Price levels with the largest gamma above price, each with its size (example: 7900.00 / 21.8M).
•Gamma Flip — Repeated here (7685.00) and labelled as the long/short gamma regime boundary.
Per-Expiration Exposure
The Per-Expiration Exposure panel breaks down the options market for the selected instrument by expiration date. Instead of showing one blended number for the whole options chain, it splits the positioning across every listed expiry.
