Options flow
A stream of reported options transactions organized to show the contract, size, price and execution context of each trade.
Options flow is the tape of reported option trades, arranged so each print shows the underlying, contract, strike, expiration, size, price, premium and where the trade printed relative to the quote. Scanners attach labels such as sweep, block, bullish or unusual to those facts.
Flow describes what traded. It does not reveal who traded, why, or what else the participant holds, so a single print can be a new position, a hedge or one leg of a larger strategy.
Illustrative example (hypothetical numbers, not a real trade): a print shows 500 contracts of a 30-day call at $2.10 on the ask. The premium is 500 × $2.10 × 100 = $105,000. The record shows the size and the price paid. It cannot show whether the buyer also sold stock or other options against it.