How to Use the Conviction Board

The Conviction Board ranks live options flow — real prints, not chart patterns — by a single score, so the loudest, most urgent flow on the market floats to the top instead of getting buried in a raw feed. It isn't one screen: there are four tabs (Conviction, Swing, Gamma, Lotto), and the same ticker can look completely different on each one, because each tab is answering a different question.

Conviction is the main board (0–7 DTE, the one this guide covers). Swing scores multi-day flow persistence instead of today's urgency — a different scanner entirely. Gamma is the dealer-structure map on its own. Lotto is covered in section 5.

Two factors do most of the work, and they're tuned for intraday-firing setups specifically:

• Net premium — real dollars committed, not contract count.
• Price momentum — is the stock actually moving with the flow right now, or is the flow sitting on a dead tape?
• Golden-sweep bonus — a size-scaled boost when a real sweep (an order split across exchanges and filled immediately) hits the ask, up to +15 for a $3M+ sweep. This is additive, not a weighted factor: a name with no sweep isn't penalized for it, a name with a huge one just ranks higher.

A high score means "loud, urgent, and the tape agrees with it right now" — it says nothing on its own about whether the dealer-gamma structure underneath actually supports the trade. That's a separate check, covered next.

Every row carries two badges that look similar at a glance but measure completely different things.

Entry Status — is the alert still fresh?

IN ZONE price is still near where the flow was flagged — entry is still valid. EXTENDED price already ran in your favor since it was flagged. Don't chase it here. STALE the alert aged, or price moved against the flow. Setup's gone cold.

Gamma Structure — a completely separate read on dealer positioning, not the flow's freshness:

γ IN ZONE above the zero-gamma flip with room to the call wall — dealer hedging damps moves here. γ PAST WALL already through the call wall — dealer gamma caps further upside from here. γ BELOW FLIP below the flip — dealers amplify moves instead of damping them.

Watch for FIGHTING THE DEALERS — the flag for when the options flow is betting against what the gamma structure actually supports. On a high-scoring name, this is the single sharpest warning on the whole board.

For members, every qualifying name on the board carries a real contract the scanner picked — 0–7 DTE, $5 or less per share, and near-the-money. The point of the price cap is accessibility: it's not the theoretically "best" strike in the chain, it's a strike small accounts can actually use without reaching for something illiquid or too far out. Free visitors see the top 3 rows on the board; the suggested contract and full board unlock with a premium Discord login.

Lottos is not a looser version of the main board — it runs a different scan entirely:

Fully premium — nothing on this board is on the free teaser.

1. Check Entry Status first. Skip anything STALE outright — a high score under a stale entry is a setup that's already passed.
2. Check the γ chip second. Favor IN ZONE or PAST WALL. If it's flagged as fighting the dealers, that's worth a second look before anything else on the row.
3. Only then look at the suggested contract — it's the accessible way in, not an instruction to chase that exact strike blindly.
4. Weight by the conviction score last — for sizing and priority across multiple qualifying names, not as the first thing you check.