Today's update tightens how the scanner highlights institutional flow. The scanner looks the same — same purple, yellow, and uncolored rows — but the logic underneath is tighter, more honest, and fully auditable.
What changed
Purple rows now mark contracts where two or more sweep trades have each exceeded the day's open interest, with combined qualifying premium of at least $250,000. A purple row is no longer a single data point — it's multiple institutional sweeps stacking into the same contract on the same day. Real, repeated commitment.
Yellow rows now mark a single sweep that exceeded the day's open interest and cleared a $50,000 premium floor. That size floor is the important part: it blocks small, retail-sized prints from coloring yellow on thin, low-open-interest contracts — the exact noise that makes most flow tools hard to trust.
Orange "late" tinting is gone from the row color. Late prints still surface, just not as a full-row tint that competes with the signals that matter.
Why a sweep "exceeding open interest" matters
Open interest is how many contracts are already outstanding at a strike. When a single sweep trades more contracts than the entire existing open interest, that's new positioning being built in real time — not someone trading against an existing book. Requiring that exceedance, plus a real premium floor, plus (for purple) repeated sweeps, means every colored row clears a bar you can actually reason about.
The thresholds, in the open
Most scanners won't tell you why a row lit up. Here's ours, in full:
- Qualifying sweep: trade type is a sweep, contracts traded exceed the day's open interest, and premium is at least $50,000.
- Yellow: exactly one qualifying sweep on the contract today.
- Purple: two or more qualifying sweeps today, with combined qualifying premium of at least $250,000.
- No color: everything else.
No hidden weighting. No proprietary score deciding the color behind the curtain.
What's next
The upcoming Apex tier will show the full reasoning behind every colored row — which specific sweeps qualified, premium per trade, the open-interest exceedance ratio, and historical outcomes for matching profiles. The colors tell you where to look; Apex will tell you why.
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Every strike, every expiration, every accumulation pattern — tracked in real time.
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