Tutorials

Browsing Flow History

Browse and search past options flow — see how activity built up in a name over time.

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What it is

Flow History is the archived, searchable counterpart to the live flow table: instead of a real-time stream, it replays any past, closed trading day's whale options activity from the official daily tape. Because that archive settles T+1 and comes from a flat-file trade tape rather than a live chain, archived rows carry ticker, contract, volume and premium, but not open interest, IV, spot price or the Greeks — those columns are hidden to keep the historical view honest about what it actually knows.

Screenshot coming soonFlow History — a past trading day's options flow, replayed.
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Open it

Use the left rail to open Flow History, which loads at /account/history inside the same dashboard shell as Live Options Flow. An active subscription is required; without one you see a "View plans" prompt instead of the explorer.

Screenshot coming soonOpen Flow History from the left rail.
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Pick a day and narrow it down

The date picker opens a calendar popover: only days with archived flow are clickable (marked with a dot), a month/year selector jumps around quickly, and a "Latest day" shortcut snaps back to the most recent archive. Alongside it, a ticker box filters the loaded day to one symbol, Refresh reloads the current day/ticker combo, and Filters opens the same range and toggle filters as the live screener, applied client-side to whatever rows are already loaded.

Screenshot coming soonThe date picker (archived days only) and the ticker filter.
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Reading the table

Each selected day loads up to its top 1,000 rows by premium. Columns are ticker, contract, type, DTE, gap, last, volume, premium, sector, earnings and order — the reduced set that a trade-tape archive can actually support. A header line shows how many rows are shown after filters versus the total for that day, and clicking a column header re-sorts (premium descending is the default).

Screenshot coming soonThe archive table — ticker, contract, volume, premium and a few more.
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Go deeper on a contract

Click a row to expand it, same as on the live table: a drawer opens with that contract's volume/open-interest history and an intraday chart overlaying the underlying's price for the archived session, with arrow markers on the executions the tape recorded that day.

Screenshot coming soonThe contract drawer — intraday volume/OI history with execution markers.