How Profit Builders classifies options flow.

Profit Builders analyzes publicly reported U.S. listed-options activity to help traders identify notable contract-level activity — trade size, execution behavior, and contract context, surfaced as it becomes available.

Profit Builders also computes gamma exposure (GEX) — dealer hedging pressure by strike and expiry — across single-name equities and ETFs. For what gamma exposure is and how to read a wall, zero gamma, and a heatmap, see the complete GEX guide.

Each observed options trade is evaluated through a consistent, multi-factor rules-based framework that considers trade characteristics, contract context, liquidity, execution behavior, and activity patterns.

Prints that meet the platform's current criteria are labeled QUALIFIED. Prints that don't are labeled PASS, often with context on why. See what QUALIFIED and PASS mean for the full explanation of the labels themselves.

Signals may include contextual labels — including ACCUMULATION, WHALE, LARGE, and UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY — where applicable. These labels describe observed activity patterns. They do not identify a trader, confirm intent, or predict future price movement.

Options activity does not confirm investor identity, intent, trade strategy, or future price direction. Large premium, high volume, or a buy-classified print can reflect hedging, spread construction, rolling, market-making, or other non-directional activity — none of it should be treated as a stand-alone trading signal.

The platform updates as market data becomes available during eligible market sessions.

Outcome labels summarize subsequent performance according to Profit Builders' current reporting rules. They are educational context, not a forecast or a recommendation.