Recent Guides

Commodities play a crucial role in our everyday life. From food to energy, pretty much everything around us in a physical form comes from commodities. Throughout history Empires rose because of their ability to access commodities. That is still true to…

Patrick who heads the Menthor Q Futures Trading Room shared his approach to trading futures using Gamma Levels. He uses Gamma Levels to spot Blind Spots or Market Reaction Zones.  Case Study. How to plan you day using Blind Spots on NQ Take a loo…

In this guide we are going to show you how to apply Menthor Q Levels to your trading and integrate Technical Analysis with Options Data. While technical analysis is a common tool among traders, it comes with significant limitations, such as its heav…

Menthor Q is excited to provide Gamma and Liquidity Levels on Futures Options. We have created a dedicated Guide on Futures Options. Futures Options allows investors more flexibility as well as allowing better risk management. Futures also …

Welcome to Menthor Q! This is our Setup Guide that will allow you to get familiar with our products, our content and help you leverage our data to become a more profitable trader. We are going to break it down in steps and share the relevant documentat…

In this Guide we will look at what futures and futures options are and why are they important for any trader. Futures are financial contracts obligating the buyer to purchase an asset or the seller to sell an asset at a predetermined future date and…

At Menthor Q, we understand the complexities and rapid movements of the futures options market. That’s why we are excited to introduce our latest product development: Gamma and Liquidity Levels on Future Options. But what are Gamma Levels? They a…

Today we are going to go through an interesting case study on How to combine Options Data and Gamma Levels with Technical Analysis. We receive a lot of questions from our community asking on how to use our data and these are some common concerns: …

Many stocks pay dividends to attract investors. These stocks are often referred to as “Dividend Aristocrats”. Stocks that pay dividends are often considered attractive investment options, especially for those looking for a steady income stream in addit…

Today we want to spend time talking about our Trading Rooms and the value they bring to our customers. The key success for every trader is access to actionable information and being able to manage risk with the goal of creating a successful strategy…

We often hear the word Kurtosis on X or when people are talking about options and probabilities. This article will help us understand this concept. Will explain what the three different Kurtosis are, and the relationship with implied volatility. The…

Financial conditions have been loosening very fast. When that happens you start seeing risk assets going to the moon. The chart below shows the financial conditions against the SPX Index. But you could have the same chart with Bitcoin or any other asse…

Last week NVDA beat estimates once again. Not really a surprise you may be thinking. The AI crazy is ripe, and that has taken over the market too. NVDA price action, is a perfect case study to help us understand the secondary effects in the market as a…

This week we are going to take some of the work that DocTraderMcgraw@Q did in our Trade Structuring Channel. For those that do not know Doc together with Chester Ming@Q and Punklandia@Q run our Structuring and Macro Trading Rooms everyday. You can acce…

As part of the Delta Hedging series we are now going to focus on the effects that Volatility has on Delta. Previously we wrote about the effects that the movement of spot has on the delta hedging activity of market makers. We looked at the investor …

In this guide we are going to show you our Delta Hedging Checklist, look at the Delta Hedging Mechanism and why Gamma Levels are key to better manage your trading plan. For those who are used to our Q-Models, we look at the option chain and greeks t…

This week we will focus on models and price action. Let’s try to see some of the ways that you could have used our models. We will also try to see how we can combine the key option levels with momentum charts to get confirmation of what we are seeing i…

This document walks through the creation of a custom option chain table in Thinkorswim. The custom fields we will be adding are: OI Change – The change in OI from yesterday to today OI – Today’s OI (it matches the built in OI field, but combines…