snorlax_uw
◆ Seeded@snorlax_uw
This creator is a specialist in institutional options flow analysis, tracking smart money positioning through Open Interest changes, premium volume, and bid/ask side pressure across individual equities and ETFs. They follow recurring large traders across multiple tickers, identifying when positions are opened, rolled, or closed to give followers a leading-edge view of where informed capital is moving. Their content bridges raw options data and actionable trade context, making complex flow analysis accessible to serious market participants.
ANTE Score
verified · v1.127% win rate over 15/20 calls · 43% coverage — a score appears at 20.
15 of 20 resolved · 18 open · ~20 by Nov 1
1-wk read · provisional · unverified: -1.7% (-2.4% vs mkt) · 44% up over 36 calls
⚑ Their unverified calls underperform their stated ones — score capped until the whole record corroborates.
Building — first 20 trades
BuildingANTE Analyst Note
AI-written from the record + public posts · medium confidence — opinion, not the verified scoreSnorlax_uw is one of the more fluent institutional options-flow analysts on the timeline — a 114k-follower account that reads open-interest changes, premium volume, and bid/ask pressure to map where big money is positioning. The draw is forensic literacy and honest teaching, not copyable signals: callouts arrive as narrative observations, with no stops, no targets, and often no stated direction. On a thin verified slice — 15 decided calls, 43% coverage — the record is loss-tilted (27% hit rate, -1.7% directional, corroboration contradicted), largely because the engine grades each flagged contract as bought and held to expiry. It's an education in flow-reading, not a trade-copy service.
The Record
Underwater on paperThe verified spine is thin and loss-tilted: based on 15 decided calls, 43% coverage, data through 2026-07-23, four won and eleven lost — a 27% hit rate. Winners averaged +98.8%, losers -82.1%, so magnitudes nearly offset, but the low strike rate drags directional return to -1.7% across 36 calls, and independent corroboration came back contradicted. The band is Building. Fairly, the engine grades each flagged contract as bought at market and held to expiry — brutal for weekly options, and for someone who reports flow rather than issues signals.
The Craft
Flow forensics, few signalsThe church is institutional options-flow: open-interest forensics, premium volume, and bid/ask-side pressure, tracked contract-by-contract across sessions as positions open, roll, and close. Direction clarity is narrative, not if-then — posts frequently ask 'which direction you think?' and note when intent is 'a bit ambiguous.' No call states a stop or a timeframe (0% on both). The two verified winners were sell-to-open puts — MU 850p and TSM 325p — reads of who is writing premium. This is real forensic work, but it hands you observations to interpret, not entries and exits to copy.
The Risk
No stops, all-or-nothingThere are no stops — 0% of calls state one — and no stated timeframes, so as literal buy-and-hold signals these are all-or-nothing weekly-premium bets. It shows: graded losers cluster near total loss (GLW -99.9%, TSLA -99.9%, INTC -99.8%, AAPL -99.7%) as contracts settle worthless at expiry. Winners average +98.8% against -82.1% losers, so at a 27% hit rate winners don't pay for losers. To their credit, the duds aren't buried — one post calls a trade 'clobbered from the jump.' Drawdown honesty is real; the geometry is not forgiving.
The Style
Prolific, understated, honestProlific and understated. The feed is mostly flow callouts and nightly 'Changes in OI' recaps, threaded through community prompts ('What flows have you seen today?') and automated rating-change, earnings and POTUS-schedule posts. Motivational filler is scarce and victory laps rare — winners and losers get reported evenly, in a dry, wry register ('We all baghold together now'). Monetisation is front-and-center but named plainly: options-flow subscription, API, bundles, a 'Retail Max' tier, Periscope market-maker data, with periodic sale pricing. It reads less like a guru than a data vendor who's decent company.
Education & Community
Teaches the mechanicsThis is where the account shines. It teaches the plumbing of options flow — how open interest confirms an opener versus a same-day close, what STO/BTC/BTO/STC imply, how a 4:1 CRWD split reprices contracts — and links a 30-minute volume-and-OI tutorial for beginners. Mistakes are owned openly, uncertainty is flagged ('the OI change is inconclusive but I think I am right'), and daily prompts ('What's something you learned this week?') invite the room. The method isn't gatekept even while the data feed is sold. For understanding institutional flow, it's a genuine classroom.
The Match
Learners, not copiersYou'll like this if you want to learn to read institutional options flow yourself — nightly OI forensics, premium and bid/ask reads — and you'll treat each callout as research to interpret rather than to copy. Fluency in options mechanics is assumed. Skip if you want ready-made entries with stops and targets, if you can only glance at markets a few times a day, or if you need a verified directional edge before acting — the graded record (27% hit rate, -1.7% directional, corroboration contradicted) doesn't yet support trading the callouts as signals.
- Cadence
- Very high — multiple posts daily, nightly 'Changes in OI' recaps, live powerhour streams
- Assets
- US equity & ETF options (near-all single options; a few vertical spreads)
- Horizon
- Short-to-swing — weeklies through multi-month options
- Plan format
- Flow callouts and OI narratives; no stops or targets
- Strategy
- Institutional options-flow / open-interest forensics
- Direction clarity
- narrative
- Monetisation
- Options-flow subscription, API, bundles, 'Retail Max' & Periscope MM-exposure tiers
- Effort to follow
- high
- Best-fit reader
- Options-literate learners who want to read institutional flow themselves, not copy trades
- Followers
- 114,143
Based on 15 decided calls, 43% coverage, 200 posts read · through 2026-07-22.
ANTE is a record of public calls and their market outcomes — not financial advice, and never a recommendation to follow or trade with anyone.