What is Options Flow?

This Academy lesson teaches options flow for crypto traders — from core definitions to how desks apply it on live perpetual and spot markets.

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Options Flow

What institutions are positioning for. Put/call ratios, max pain, notable trades, and options-implied directional bias.

What this lesson covers

→Covers options with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers put call ratio with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers max pain with desk-ready framing and examples.

Keywords & desk context

This lesson sits in the Derivatives Intelligence module. Traders use it to connect options, put call ratio, max pain, options flow to live execution on CEX perpetuals and on-chain markets.

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