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A SUITE OF FOUR SIGNAL CATEGORIES

Every tool inside BigShort.

Fifteen real-time indicators that read order flow, dealer positioning, short pressure, and historical analogues — all on a single chart, on every NYSE and Nasdaq ticker.

FLOW ANALYTICS 6
Track real institutional order flow — across equities, options, and dark pools — to see where the smart money is positioning before price moves.
DEALER HEDGING 5
Decode the gamma exposure that forces dealers to buy or sell to stay hedged. These flows create the price magnets and intraday levels that actually matter.
SHORT SQUEEZE 2
Spot when shorts are trapped — proprietary signals that flag building pressure long before the squeeze is obvious to everyone else.
PATTERN ANALOGUES 1
Compare the live tape to thousands of historical sessions to quantify what usually happens next, with statistical confidence instead of pure intuition.
01 / 04 FLOW ANALYTICS 6 TOOLS

Track real institutional order flow — across equities, options, and dark pools — to see where the smart money is positioning before price moves.

SmartFlow

FLOW ANALYTICS

See when institutions are quietly buying or selling — activity that price and volume don't show.

SmartFlow tracks real-time institutional order flow, revealing accumulation and distribution patterns that price and volume indicators can't.

SMARTFLOW· SPY · 5m
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · SmartFlow

Net Options Flow

FLOW ANALYTICS

Know whether big money is betting on upside or downside — on any ticker, in real time.

Net Options Flow aggregates options transactions into a single directional read — available per symbol on any ticker you pull up, and for the broader market as a whole. When big money is loading calls or puts on the name you're watching, you'll see it before the potential move.

NET OPTIONS FLOW· QQQ · 5m
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · Net Options Flow

Net Options Flow Accumulation

FLOW ANALYTICS

See the big picture behind options positioning — not just single trades, but the trend.

NOFA tracks the cumulative sum of net options flow over time, revealing whether institutions are steadily building bullish or bearish positions. While individual flow spikes can be noise, accumulation shows persistent conviction — giving you context on where institutions are leaning.

NOFA· SPY · 1h
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · NOFA

Dark Pools

FLOW ANALYTICS

Spot where large block trades are printing — levels that often act as support and resistance.

The majority of U.S. equities volume now trades off-exchange — so dark pool prints are where institutional capital is quietly accumulating or distributing, out of sight of the public tape. These levels matter: prints below price have often acted as support, and prints above have often acted as resistance.

DARK POOLS· NVDA · 5m
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · Dark Pools

MomoFlow

FLOW ANALYTICS

See when discretionary traders are chasing — and when they're strong enough to break out.

MomoFlow tracks the flow of human, discretionary traders — from small retail up to hedge fund desks. When MomoFlow and FastFlow push hard in the same direction, it can indicate that discretionary money is overextended — conditions that have historically preceded reversals. When MomoFlow runs unexpectedly strong, it can overwhelm market maker hedging and coincide with breakouts. Seeing both cases gives you context most charts don't.

MOMOFLOW· TSLA · 5m
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · MomoFlow

FastFlow

FLOW ANALYTICS

The fast, paper-handed money that amplifies moves — then bails.

FastFlow tracks the short-horizon algorithmic traders that pile into momentum and retrace just as quickly. They exaggerate moves on the way in, but rarely stick around to defend them. Read alongside MomoFlow, FastFlow adds context to the reversal case — when both are stretched in the same direction, the move has often been near exhaustion.

FASTFLOW· QQQ · 1m
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FLOW ANALYTICSBigShort · FastFlow
02 / 04 DEALER HEDGING 5 TOOLS

Decode the gamma exposure that forces dealers to buy or sell to stay hedged. These flows create the price magnets and intraday levels that actually matter.

Gravity HP

DEALER HEDGING

The hedge point dealers are positioned around — concentrated exposure that may act as a price magnet.

Gravity HP calculates the hedge point where dealer exposure is most concentrated. Because dealer hedging activity clusters here, this level can act as a reference point for mean-reversion setups.

GRAVITY HP· SPY · 5m
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DEALER HEDGINGBigShort · Gravity HP

Call / Put HP

DEALER HEDGING

The intraday gamma levels where dealer hedging concentrates.

Call HP and Put HP track where gamma exposure is building against dealers in real time. The lines move on the chart throughout the day — showing potential intraday support and resistance zones associated with dealer positioning.

CALL / PUT HP· NVDA · 5m
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DEALER HEDGINGBigShort · Call/Put HP

GEX Regime

DEALER HEDGING

Helps you assess whether conditions favor mean reversion or trending — before you enter.

GEX Regime shows whether gamma exposure is positive or negative — conditions that have historically been associated with range-bound or trending markets, respectively.

GEX REGIME· SPY · 1h
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DEALER HEDGINGBigShort · GEX Regime

Skew

DEALER HEDGING

See whether options traders are hedging fear or chasing greed.

Skew measures the imbalance between put and call demand, revealing whether the market is positioned for protection or speculation.

SKEW· SPY · 1h
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DEALER HEDGINGBigShort · Skew

MM Skew

DEALER HEDGING

Subtle shifts in dealer positioning that most charts never show.

MM Skew tracks small, deliberate changes in market maker positioning in real time. Dealers don't want to signal weakness, so the moves are usually quiet — but those quiet shifts can indicate which side dealers are leaning, and where their hedging may show up on the tape.

MM SKEW· SPY · 5m
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DEALER HEDGINGBigShort · MM Skew
03 / 04 SHORT SQUEEZE 2 TOOLS

Spot when shorts are trapped — proprietary signals that flag building pressure long before the squeeze is obvious to everyone else.

Honey Badger Signal

SHORT SQUEEZE

Our proprietary short-squeeze signal — and a crowd favorite in the community.

The Honey Badger flags conditions historically associated with short squeezes, built on our proprietary short-interest and dealer-positioning data. In our internal backtest it printed a 90% win rate*, and it's one of the most-watched signals among BigShort members.

*Based on internal backtesting. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

HONEY BADGER· AAPL · 1h
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SHORT SQUEEZEBigShort · Honey Badger

Short Exempt

SHORT SQUEEZE

An indication that market makers may be short in size — and under pressure.

Short Exempt orders are marked when a market maker shorts without a locate — almost always to hedge existing exposure. Clusters of these prints can indicate where dealers are short and under pressure. When those shorts get covered, the buying has often pushed price higher.

SHORT EXEMPT· TSLA · 5m
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SHORT SQUEEZEBigShort · Short Exempt
04 / 04 PATTERN ANALOGUES 1 TOOL

Compare the live tape to thousands of historical sessions to quantify what usually happens next, with statistical confidence instead of pure intuition.

Similarity Search

PATTERN ANALOGUES

Find the closest historical analogues to today's price action — and see what happened next.

Similarity Search scans years of intraday data to surface the days that most closely match the shape of the current session. Overlay the analogues, see the median path, and quantify the range of likely outcomes — pattern-recognition with statistical backing instead of pure intuition.

SIMILARITY SEARCH· SPY · 1h
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PATTERN ANALOGUESBigShort · Similarity Search
Use a suite of tools developed by a market-beating quant trading firm. Tae-Hwan Jo, co-founder of BigShort, used our forward-tested proprietary algorithm to grow a $139k account into over $10 million in trading and real estate gains between January 2016 and December 2022 — brokerage statements and tax returns included.*
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