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🎯 War Rooms — a whole index on one screen

Every other page reads one ticker, or every ticker as a list. A War Room shows one group of stocks together — the Nasdaq-100, the Dow 30, or our own forty AI stocks: who is moving, how broad the move is, which names stopped moving with the rest, and where option dealers stand. The rooms are open to everyone.

💡 Two questions, one screen What is the field doing? — the headline, the bar of ups and downs, the map. Who is doing it? — the movers, the stocks that lift or weigh on the group, the table. Read the first before the second: a stock up 2% means one thing on a day when four in five are up, and another when it is alone.
Live or the closeThe headlineSix figuresThe heat mapMoversBreadthCorrelationOption dealersThe tableA stock's cardRoutine

Live, or the close? — the line under the title

The page is rebuilt every night from end-of-day data. While the US market is open it also lays delayed quotes over that, about once a minute. The line under the title always says which you are looking at.

The line saysWhat the figures are
● Market openDelayed quotes, up to 15–20 minutes behind, refreshed about once a minute. The headline, the six figures, the map, the movers and the table follow the quotes.
Closed — today's dateThe day's closing prices from the delayed quotes. The full rebuild (breadth charts, correlation, option readings) runs later that night.
At the close of …Everything is from that close: our own end-of-day data.
⚠ Two clocks on one pagePrices move with the session. The option readings (dealer gamma, IV rank, walls) and the correlation study do not: they are always from the last close, because they are computed from end-of-day option chains and daily closes.

The headline and the bar

The green-and-red bar counts stocks: how many are up, how many are down. The headline above it is chosen from two things — the group's move weighted the room's own way, and the share of stocks that are up.

HeadlineWhen the page writes it
A broad advanceThe group is up and 75% or more of the stocks that moved are up.
More stocks up than downThe group is up and 55% to 75% are up.
Up — carried by a few heavy namesThe group is up although fewer than 55% of its stocks are. The weight is doing the work.
A broad declineThe group is down and 25% or fewer are up.
More stocks down than upThe group is down and 25% to 45% are up.
Down — pulled by a few heavy namesThe group is down although more than 45% of its stocks are up.
A split field, and little net movementThe group moved less than 0.1% and between 40% and 60% of the stocks are up.

How each room is weighted. The Dow 30 by share price, exactly as the index is: a $600 stock counts six times a $100 stock. The Nasdaq-100 by its index weights, read from the daily holdings of a fund that tracks it — not by plain company size, because the index holds its very largest names down. The AI room by market value (it is our own list, not an index).

The six figures

FigureHow to read it
The index (or its fund)During the session: the index itself, with its level. On the close: the fund that tracks it (QQQ, DIA).
The stocks, weightedThe room's own stocks added up the room's way, and under it the average stock. A gap between the two is the heavy names pulling one way and the rest another.
Up / downThe count of stocks, not weighted.
Above their 50-day averageThe share of stocks whose price is above their own 50-day average (and, smaller, the 200-day).
20-day highs / lowsStocks at their highest or lowest close of the last 20 sessions; under it, 52-week highs and lows.
Moved more than their options pricedSee option dealers below.

The heat map

One tile per stock, grouped by sector (by camp in the AI room). Size is the stock's weight in the room; colour is its change. Hover a tile for its figures, click it for the stock's card.

ButtonWhat it does
Colour: Today · 5 days · 1 month · This yearThe period the colour shows. A tile reaches full colour at ±3% for today, ±6% for five days, ±12% for a month and ±40% for the year; anything beyond looks the same.
Size: weight · EqualWeight shows what moves the index. Equal draws every stock the same size, so the small names can be read — the default on a phone.
◐ Blue / orangeBlue for up and orange for down instead of green and red — easier to tell apart with red-green colour blindness. Your browser remembers the choice.
🧭 Try thisSwitch the size between weight and Equal on a day the headline says "carried by a few heavy names". In the weight view the map looks green; in the Equal view most of it is red. That difference is the whole story of the day.

Movers — two different lists

ListHow to read it
Biggest gains · Biggest lossesThe largest changes of the day, in percent, whatever the stock's weight.
Lifting the group · Weighing on itChange × weight: how many percentage points of the group's move come from that one stock. The figures of every stock add up to the group's move.

Below, By sector shows each group's own weighted move as a bar from the middle, how many of its stocks are up, and its weight in the room.

Breadth — is the move broad?

ChartWhat it tells you
Weighted against every stock equalOne year, both started at 100. The weighted line above the equal one: the heavy names carried the year. Below: the smaller names did better.
Stocks above their 50-day averageThe share of the room's stocks above their own 50-day average, day by day, with today's value beside a typical session of the year.

Who broke ranks — the correlation shift

Stocks of one group usually move together. For every pair of stocks in the room the page compares two windows that do not overlap: the last 63 sessions (about three months) and the 252 sessions before them (a year). Correlation runs from −1 (opposite) through 0 (no link) to +1 (together).

ReadingChange in the pair's correlation
Shiftedfell by more than 0.20 — the two moved together clearly less than before
Minor shiftfell by 0.05 to 0.20
Negligiblefell by less than 0.05
Steadyunchanged, or rose by less than 0.30
Strengthenedrose by 0.30 or more
PartHow to read it
How tightly the group moves as oneThe average correlation of all pairs over a rolling 63 sessions. High: everything moves together (usually a market driven by one big worry or one big hope). Low: each stock on its own story.
Left the pack · Joined the packEach stock's average correlation with all the others, year before → last three months.
Every pair at a glanceA square per pair. Blue: together. Orange: apart. Change shows the shift; the other two buttons show each window by itself. Hover a square, click it for the pair.
Moved apart / together the mostThe twelve largest changes each way. Click a row for the pair: the two prices over both windows, and their correlation as it moved.
lowest (highest) of 5 quartersThe last three months are below (above) every one of the four quarters before.
mostly one sessionTaking one single day out changes the three-month correlation by 0.15 or more. It is usually a company report on which the two went far apart.
⚠ A shift is where to look, not proofWith 63 sessions a single pair's correlation is uncertain by about ±0.1. Among thousands of pairs some large changes appear by chance alone. And one report day can make three months of "broken" correlation by itself — the page marks those pairs, and the pair's chart shows it as a cliff instead of a drift.

Where option dealers stand

This is the site's own subject, added up over the room. All of it is from the last close.

FigureHow to read it
Long gamma / short gammaHow many stocks have dealers on each side. Long gamma: their hedging leans against a move and tends to calm it. Short gamma: it goes with the move and can let it stretch.
Median IV rankThe typical stock's implied volatility in its own one-year range: 0 the cheapest day, 100 the dearest.
IV rank 80 or more / 20 or lessHow many stocks sit at the dear and at the cheap end.
Closed through an option wallStocks that closed above their call wall or below their put wall at the last close.
Within 1.5% of a wallStocks whose close was that near to a call wall or a put wall.
Moving more than their options pricedThe day's change divided by the one-day move the options price (implied volatility ÷ √252). 1.0× = exactly the priced move; 2× = twice it.

Members also get At the walls: the price on view — live during the session — against last night's call wall and put wall, stock by stock. "through" = the price is beyond the wall; "near" = within 1.5% of it.

The table — every stock on one row

Click a column to sort, type in the box to search a ticker, a name or a sector, click a row for the stock's card.

ColumnHow to read it
Price · Day · WeightThe price on view, its change on the day, and the stock's weight in the room.
5 d · 1 mo · YearThe change over 5 sessions, 20 sessions, and since the last close of last year.
Off highThe distance from the 52-week high.
50 · 200Two dots: the 50-day and the 200-day average. Filled = the price is above it; a ring = below.
RSIThe 14-session relative strength index. 70 or more and 30 or less are marked.
PackThe stock's average correlation with the others over the last three months, and its change from the year before.
Gamma · IV rankThe dealers' side and the IV rank at the last close.
Move ÷ pricedThe day's change over the one-day move the options price; above 1.0× it is marked.
Call wall · Put wall · Flip (members)How far the price on view is from last night's call wall, put wall and gamma flip.

A stock's card

Click any tile, list entry or row. The card holds the stock's price and its last sixty closes, its changes over four periods, its option reading in plain words, and With the pack: the stocks it moves most like now, and the ones it drifted from the most — click one to open that pair. Members also see the stock's walls, gamma flip and max pain with their distance from the price, and links into the Viewer.

🎓 Pro tipRead the correlation line and the option figures together. A falling "how tightly the group moves" with a calm index means the single stocks are doing the moving: the index's options price less movement than the average member's do, which is the backdrop a dispersion trader looks for. The opposite — the line rising fast — is a market trading as one block, where a hedge with the index covers more of each stock's risk than usual. And a stock that has moved more than its options priced while its dealers are short gamma is in the one setting where hedging adds to the move instead of absorbing it.

A routine that works

  1. The line under the title: live, today's close, or last night?
  2. The headline and the bar: broad, or carried by a few? Check the gap between "weighted" and "average stock".
  3. The map by weight, then by Equal. Which sector is the day's story?
  4. Lifting / weighing lists: which two or three stocks explain the index's move?
  5. Once a week: the correlation section. Which stocks left the pack — and is it a drift or one report day?
  6. Open the stock that stands out: its card here, then its own pages — Options Chart, Walls & Levels, Volatility.