When a name catches your eye on the desk, two questions follow immediately: what is being said about it, and where is the options crowd positioning. Both live in the watchlist rail, under the symbol list, so neither costs you a trip to another site.

The panel follows the chart you have selected. Click SOFI in the list and the panel becomes SOFI. Collapse it with the arrow in its header if you would rather have the space; it stops fetching when it is closed.

Recent stories for that ticker, newest first, each showing the publisher and how long ago it ran. Click any headline for the full card without leaving the desk.

Inside the card:

• A plain-language summary of the story, so you can judge whether it matters before deciding to read it.
• Sentiment for this ticker, and the reasoning. This is the part worth knowing about. A market-wrap article might name six companies and be broadly negative while being positive about your one. The card shows the read for the symbol you are looking at, and the sentence explaining why — not the article’s overall mood.
• Other tickers mentioned, so you can see whether the story is really about this company or about its whole sector.
• Read the full story opens the publisher’s article in a new tab.

Contracts on that ticker where today’s volume is larger than the open interest — sorted by how much money went through.

Open interest is every position that already exists on a contract. Volume is what traded today. When volume exceeds open interest, more contracts changed hands today than existed before the bell — that is new positioning, not people trading in and out of positions they already had.

Each row shows:

• CALL or PUT, the strike and the expiry — which contract.
• The dollar figure on the right — roughly how much money traded through it today.
• vol vs OI, and the multiple — “3.9× OI” means almost four times as many contracts traded today as existed beforehand. The bigger the multiple, the more this is somebody putting a fresh position on.
• IV — the implied volatility that contract is pricing.

Nothing showing usually means nothing to see: no contract traded more than its open interest today, which is the ordinary state of affairs.

Two honest limits to keep in mind:

• You cannot tell who was buying. A large put volume might be somebody betting the stock falls, somebody hedging shares they own, or the other side of a spread. Flow tells you where attention is, not which way a trade was leaning.
• Figures are the session’s totals, refreshed through the day rather than tick by tick. Confirm anything you intend to trade against with your broker.

Used properly, it is a question rather than a signal: why is there suddenly interest at that strike? When it lands on a strike you were already thinking about selling, that is worth a look at the entry signals and the earnings calendar before you act.