Unlock DEALER Option Positioning Insights with Vol.land: A LaDucTrading Partner

Why LaDucTrading Recommends: Vol.land is different from all the rest.

The Best Source Data – We’re talking trade level feed on 1000 tickers coming directly from CBOE. Not end of day or 3rd party!

You get access to accurately-matched customer trade-level data using the same calculations the market makers use.

No more relying on out-of-context assumptions OR lazy midpoint categorizations.
Those services are noise, not the actual signal, and do more harm than good for your portfolio.

More Insights More Metrics – Because Volland analyzes each trade individually, they provide metrics no one else can.

You get to see what market makers are demanding for trades. That’s edge.

From their liquidity widgets to their 3D volatility plane, VolLand shows the fixed-price vol impacts from day-to-day.
Their proprietary algorithms deliver the notional changes in delta, vega, and gamma that reveal bullish or bearish motivations.

Volland isn’t just a dealer positioning option flow service.
They also leverage these tools for their audited hedge fund: addeumfunds.com.

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How LaDucTrading Uses VolHacks for example…

• Quad Screener
• Catalyst Impact Indicator
• Extremes Indicator
• Spot Vol Beta (Over-Vixing) Indicator

Quad Screener allows you to plot a variety of stocks, indices, and ETFs to see how dealer positioning can impact future returns.

• The x-axis uses vanna exposure to determine the directional lean for the stock compared to the past 6 months.
• The y-axis uses gamma exposure to form volatility expectations.

You can create a workspace using many quad screeners for sector-specific analysis to better show opportunities for dispersion trades, or to see if dealers are leaning too strongly in one direction, or where dealers are overleveraged in a particular volatility regime.

With the most accurate dealer positioning data in the market, we find the quad screener to be particularly useful to aid in planning trades, controlling risk, and help gain confidence with entries and exits.

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Catalyst Impact Indicator allows you to see the imbalance of pricing power based on the delta change on a dealer’s book. It reveals the influence of dealer hedging on the underlying stock based on the reduction of implied volatility that always happens after a catalyst or volatility crush.

Have you ever had a fundamental thesis about a catalyst – were correct – but the market traded in the opposite direction?

Understand why a “strong bullish bias” often indicates dealers/customers positioned bearish on the margin, and why the most likely direction of the market after the catalyst would have a bullish bias even if the fundamental news is negative. Now you can see if a certain trade is “too crowded” and why a stock reacts post earnings as a result.

This indicator shows the imbalance of all the participants’ positioning so you can better position or avoid the event all together. You will be shocked at how this demystifies post-catalyst price action.

Extremes Indicator allows you to see at what price levels dealers would be actively working against market momentum.

And it shows these vanna transition levels (calculated on fixed-price volatility) across timeframes depending on your preferred trading horizon:

• Short-term (0-2 weeks) – can be the strongest in calm markets.
• Intermediate-term (2-6 weeks) – can be the strongest in moderately volatile markets.
• Long-term (2-6 months) – often the strongest force in very volatile markets.

These price levels represent areas where dealers are getting stretched and would be good prices to start looking for reversals.

If you see a “—” in the support extreme or a “+++” in the resistance extreme, that means there is not enough option volume at any price to stop market momentum based on vanna at that tenor.

If you see a “+++” in the support extreme or a “—” in the resistance extreme, that means the current price has passed the closest extreme and you should start to look for a reversal.

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Spot Vol Beta is an Over/Under-Vixing Indicator that Volland made famous.

One of the strongest relationships in the market is the inverse correlation between daily changes in equity prices and the implied volatility of the underlying. Vol.land dynamically calculates the daily change of VIX expected for every 1% SPX move, which is called the spot-vol correlation.

The Vol.land team completed a study of what happens when VIX overshoots its implied change in a day – the “overvixing”. They found it will mean revert within a specific timeframe – inversely guiding SPX direction.

As of October 31, 2025, this signal has succeeded 28 out of 30 times, giving a remarkable 93% success rate – going all the way back to 2012.

This popular quantitative edge is tracked in the Spot Vol Beta gauge, and these instances of “Active Vol Events” are track ed in a table below the gauge.

When markets are in a regime of overvixing, it will act like a slingshot later for SPX as VIX mean reverts back down.
So tracking when VIX starts to undershoot its implied change in a day – undervixing – can help time a top VIX.
Knowing that handoff in a VIX regime is very helpful for traders to better position and profit from a reversal.

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