Money flow (premium traded) report
Contracts ranked by approximate premium traded - session volume x average traded premium x 100 - with their share of the chain total.
Overview
The Money flow (premium traded) report ranks contracts by the approximate dollars that changed hands in them this session. Volume alone treats a $0.05 contract like a $20 one; premium traded weighs each contract by its price.
The data delay depends on your plan and is shown on every view: the as-of time and the delayed label sit above the results. On the Free plan reports show the previous session.
How the report is built
- Premium traded = session volume x average traded premium x 100 (USD). An approximation, not a record of executed trades.
- Contracts with zero volume or no mark are left out.
- Money flow share = the contract's premium traded / the whole chain's.
- Direction is never inferred: money flow counts both buyers and sellers.
Before you start
Any signed-in plan can open the report from Research → Reports. Your plan decides how fresh the data is and how much history you can read. CSV export needs a plan that includes it.
Steps
- Open Research → Reports, choose the Money Flow family (or type "Money flow (premium traded)" in Search reports) and open Money flow (premium traded).
- The report runs straight away with its default filters. The as-of time and delayed label are shown above the grid.
- Change any filter (for example pick one symbol) and press Run to refresh the grid.
- Choose Save as screen to keep your variant under Research → Saved Screens, where you can schedule it or turn it into an alert.
- Use Export CSV to download the rows (plans with CSV export).
Columns and metrics
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Symbol | The underlying stock or ETF. |
| Expiration | The contract expiration date. |
| C/P | Call or put. |
| Strike | The strike price of the contract. |
| Volume | Contracts traded so far this session (cumulative, as of the snapshot time). |
| Mark | Bid/ask midpoint, per share. This is the premium the reports use. |
| Premium traded | Approximate dollars traded in the contract: session volume x average traded premium x 100 (USD). |
| Money flow share | This contract's premium traded / the whole chain's money flow. |
| OI | Open contracts as of the prior settlement. |
| OI Δ | Open interest minus the previous session's open interest, in contracts. |
| OI Δ % | (OI - previous OI) / previous OI. |
| Und. Price | The latest price of the underlying stock. |
Percentages are stored as fractions and displayed as percentages (0.05 is shown as 5 %). An unknown value shows as "-", never as 0.
How to read it
- A contract with a high Money flow share dominated its chain's activity today.
- Check OI Δ to see whether the dollars went into new positions.
Example
Illustrative only - the symbol and numbers are invented.
XYZ 100 call: Volume 5,000, average premium 2.00 - Premium traded ≈ 5,000 x 2.00 x 100 = $1,000,000. The chain's total is $4,000,000, so Money flow share is 25 %.
Using it in your research
- Find where the most option dollars were committed today rather than where the most contracts traded.
- Compare with Daily volume to separate cheap high-volume contracts from expensive ones.
Treat every row as a starting point for your own research, not as a signal. Volume and open interest never say whether a trade was a buy or a sell.
FAQs
Is money flow buying pressure?
No. Every contract traded has a buyer and a seller. Money flow measures size of activity, not direction.
Troubleshooting
Money flow differs from another site
It is an approximation from delayed snapshots and the average traded premium, not a sum of executed trades.
The report shows "No Records Found"
The filters may be too narrow for the session, or the session has only just opened. Widen a threshold, clear the symbol, or check the as-of time to see which session you are reading. On the Free plan you read the previous session.