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Built for futures: why NQ and ES need their own dealer map

Most options-positioning tools are built for stock and ETF traders. Futures traders need the map drawn in their price, on their instrument.

Built for futures: why NQ and ES need their own dealer map

Options-positioning tools have exploded, but almost all of them were built for one audience: stock and ETF traders. They show you SPY, QQQ, and single names. If you trade ES and NQ futures, that leaves you doing conversion math in your head while the move is already happening.

MoonshotFlows is built the other way around. Futures first.

Same dealers, wrong chart

The dealers hedging SPX and NDX options are the same force that moves ES and NQ. The exposure is real either way. The problem is the delivery. A stock trader can look at a SPY gamma level and act. A futures trader has to translate the cash index into ES or NQ points, account for the basis, and do it live. By the time the math is done, the level is gone.

We draw it in your price

We take the dealer exposure and convert every level into ES and NQ futures price, using the live basis between the future and the cash index. The gamma flip, the vanna flip, the walls, the air pockets, all of it lands on your futures chart at the price you actually trade. No conversion, no basis math, no lag.

The 0DTE reality

Futures traders live intraday, and intraday is dominated by 0DTE. We treat 0DTE as the front of the book and let you aggregate out to the quarter, so you see both the pin that runs today and the structure underneath it. (More in "0DTE to the quarter.")

The read

If you trade ES or NQ, you should be reading a map that speaks futures. The mechanics are the same ones the stock-trader tools use. The difference is that this one is drawn in your instrument, at your price, updated live.