💫 Options (practical plays) · OI-based

Option buying using Open Interest

Rising OI + rising price = long unwinding not happening → buy calls. Rising OI + falling price = fresh shorts building → buy puts. Uses OI change as directional filter for option purchases.

Timeframe: 5m / 15m

Indicators: Open Interest, Change in OI

Scaffold page

This page shows the core summary above. Detailed setup, entry/exit rules, and an interactive chart for this strategy are being added in a follow-up pass. See the Options (practical plays) category for related strategies with full detail already added.

What the strategy does

Rising OI + rising price = long unwinding not happening → buy calls. Rising OI + falling price = fresh shorts building → buy puts. Uses OI change as directional filter for option purchases.

Tools it uses

Open Interest
Change in OI

General trading rules that apply

Regardless of the specific setup, these apply to every strategy on this site:

Never risk more than 2% of your account on a single trade
Place a hard stop-loss before entering — no exceptions
Journal every trade: setup, reason, outcome, one lesson
After two consecutive losses, stop for the session
Backtest and paper-trade for a month before deploying real capital

Educational content only

Every strategy here is an educational description of a widely-known technical setup. Past behavior does not guarantee future results. The chart above uses synthetic price data generated for illustration — real market behavior varies. Backtest, paper-trade, and size responsibly before risking real capital.

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