Monday morning, November 10th. Markets just opened.
Three Ghost Print positions closed profitable before most traders finished their coffee.
GoPro: 82% profit. Opened August 26th. Exit this morning.
BID Farms: 105% profit. Opened September 11th. Exit this morning.
Wolf: 200% profit. Opened September 12th. Exit this morning.
Three different setups. Three different timeframes. All spotted the same way—institutional footprints in options flow that retail traders never noticed.
That's not luck. That's systematic surveillance of what big money is actually doing.
Here's what happened with one of the biggest Ghost Print winners this year: D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) in September.
September 11th: 2,000 contracts of calls appeared in a single institutional print.
September 12th: 9,000 more contracts. Back-to-back days. Massive positioning.
Someone was accumulating aggressively. Not retail size. Not retail money. Institutional capital flowing into specific strikes before the crowd had any idea what was coming.
Seven days later, the stock surged 63%.
The options?
- $14 strike calls: 220% gain
- $15 strike calls: 179% gain
- $17 strike calls: 150% gain
One Ghost Prints member took the $19.50 calls. Sold half at 250% profit. Sold the other half at over 400% profit. Kept two contracts as free runners that hit $340 each.
That's the difference between seeing institutional flow before the move and chasing price after everyone already knows.
The Ghost Prints methodology tracks exactly these signals:
Large institutional prints - When 4,700 contracts trade in one print, that's not retail guessing. That's professional decision-making with real capital.
Unusual concentration - 30,000 contracts in PLUG. 9,000 contracts in QBTS back-to-back days. These aren't random lottery tickets. These are institutional bets.
Squeeze bar pressure - Gamma building in specific strikes. Dealer positioning forcing hedging flows. Technical pressure retail traders never see until it's too late.
Brandon Chapman—our Chief Market Technician who teaches the Ghost Prints methodology—just shared his biggest winner this year: $47,000 on a single Ghost Print trade.
Not from guessing. Not from technical patterns. From tracking institutional flow and positioning ahead of the move.
Last week alone, Ghost Print signals caught:
- Tesla swing trade: 327% gain = $24,000 profit
- Troy Brand position: $19,000+ profit
- Multiple positions closed Monday morning with 80%+ returns
Ghost Prints Weekly delivers one high-conviction signal every week based on this exact institutional surveillance:
✓ Real-time institutional flow detection - Track block trades and unusual activity as it happens
✓ Forensic-grade signal clarity - Exact entry, exit, strike, expiration—no guesswork
✓ Professional position sizing - When you see 30,000 contracts trade, you know it's institutional
✓ Squeeze bar indicators - Gamma pressure showing where dealers must hedge
✓ Educational context - Learn to think like an institution, not like retail
This isn't about predicting the future. It's about reading what institutions are doing right now. Their flow reveals their positioning. Their positioning telegraphs their expectations. And their footprints appear days or weeks before retail traders notice anything happening.
QBTS ran 63% in seven days. The institutional prints showed up September 11-12. Anyone watching Ghost Prints saw it building in real-time. Anyone trading headlines saw it after the move was over.
Kohl's in July: 4,700 contracts bought at $0.50. Next day exit at 150% gain. The institutional print appeared 24 hours before the move.
PLUG: 30,000 contracts created a gamma squeeze retail never anticipated.
COIN: Institutional put buying telegraphed the 33% drop weeks in advance.
SIRI: Block-sized put positions appeared before the 37% collapse.
The footprints are always there. Most traders just don't have the surveillance tools to see them.
Ghost Prints Weekly gives you one high-conviction signal every week based on the same institutional intelligence professionals use. Not ten marginal trades. Not random speculation. One setup where the flow shows real institutional positioning happening.
Monday morning, three positions closed profitable. All from the same methodology. All from tracking what big money was doing before retail traders had any idea.
The next Ghost Print is setting up right now. Institutions are positioning. Block trades are printing. Gamma pressure is building in specific strikes. You can wait for the headlines, or you can start tracking the flow that moves markets.
Access this week's Ghost Print signal and institutional flow surveillance
One weekly signal. Professional intelligence. Real institutional positioning.
Trade well,
Don Kaufman
Chief Market Strategist, TheoTrade
P.S. When 9,000 contracts print in a single day after 2,000 contracts printed the day before, that's not coincidence—that's institutional accumulation. QBTS ran 63% seven days later. Ghost Prints members saw it building in real-time. Start seeing what institutions do before the crowd notices.
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