The Moby Tick User Guide
28 chapters covering every tool, from your first session to the options dashboards. Each page explains what the tool shows, how to read it and how to set it up, with screenshots. Quick answers are in the FAQ and terms are defined in the Glossary.
Start here
Welcome to Moby Tick
Moby Tick shows you where institutions trade. Large blocks of stock change hands away from the public exchanges every day, more than $200 billion of it…
Plans and what they include
Every plan can be billed monthly or yearly. Yearly billing gives 12 months for the price of 10. The Whale plan includes a 7-day free trial.
Finding your way around
Every screen shares the same header. The icons across the middle are the main tools; the controls on the right are your clock, alerts and account.
Your first session
This is the five-minute routine most members use before the open. It touches the core tools once.
Tools
Dashboard
The Dashboard is the session overview. It brings the day's largest trades, live prints, earnings, ex-dividend dates, pre-market movers, a sector heatmap…
Block Trade Indicator
The BTI is a live feed of large prints, split into cards. Each card has its own name, minimum size, minimum price, tickers, colours and columns. Run a…
Print Lookup
Print Lookup is where you study one ticker. The chart shows its ten largest dark pool prints as labelled levels. Below the chart are every qualifying…
Trade Mapping
Trade Mapping lists the price levels above and below the current price, with the profit to each and its risk/reward. It answers two questions before you…
Watchlists
A Moby Tick watchlist is a trade plan. Each row holds the ticker's price data, the signal meter, your long and short triggers with up to ten targets each…
Alerts
Open the alerts panel with the alarm-clock icon in the header or Alt+T. It has three alert types across the top: Price, BTI and Option. Each has tabs for…
ETF Lookup
A block in an ETF moves every stock inside it. ETF Lookup works in both directions.
Opportunities
Opportunities scans the market for tickers with recent large prints and shows each one's context in one row, so you can shortlist setups without opening…
Late Prints
Some blocks are reported after the session they executed in, sometimes the next day. They land in today's tape but belong to yesterday's trading. Late…
Seasonality
Seasonality lists tickers entering a historically strong window and tells you how closely this year is following that pattern.
Custom Layouts
Build your own screen from Moby Tick components. Open Layouts in the menu to pick a saved layout or click Add New Layout.
Options
Options tools overview
The options tools show how option traders and the dealers on the other side of their trades are positioned. Dealer hedging buys and sells real shares, so…
Options Flow
Options Flow lists large and unusual option trades with a summary of the flow at the top and filters on the left.
GEX Dashboard
Choose a ticker to see its gamma exposure profile. Filter by expiration with ALL EXPIRIES, 0DTE, WEEKLY, MONTHLY or QUARTERLY, and tick Show empty strikes…
0DTE Dashboard
The 0DTE Dashboard follows options that expire today. Choose SPY, QQQ, IWM, SPX, RUT, DJX or NDX, and a change interval of 5M, 30M or 1H.
Flow Leaders
Four top-ten boards for a date range: Bullish flow, Bearish flow, Most active flow and Top sector, each with orders and premium. Choose All, Stocks or…
Account
Settings
Open Settings from the avatar menu. It has four sections.
Subscription and billing
Avatar › My Subscription has three tabs.
Office Hours
Live, open sessions with founder Dave Barnhart. Every subscriber can drop in; there is no booking and no limit. Bring a setup you are watching, a print…
Founder Sessions
A free 30-minute one-to-one with Dave to get more out of Moby Tick. Founder Sessions are included with the Whale plan: one session per quarter.
Learn
Learning resources
At mobyticktrading.com/help: Trade Types (all 59 condition codes), How-to Videos, Educational Videos and Webinars.
Using Moby Tick with other platforms
The Partners page lists Stefanie Kammerman (The Stock Whisperer), Jane Gallina and TrendSpider. Educators with an audience can apply to the affiliate…