Built by a trader, for traders

The cockpit I built to trade 0DTE — and the book that teaches it.

TraderIQ is a purpose-built SPX 0DTE options terminal: read the tape, see the liquidity, execute at the tick, and stay bounded by hard risk — on one screen.

SPX · SPXW 0DTE · SPY · TradeStation-connected · SIM & LIVE

SPX · 1m · opening-range break
20+ integrated tools $TICK · GEX · VWAP±2σ · POC defined-risk options & a hard kill switch journal · replay · phone push
The platform

Everything the trade needs, in the order you actually work.

Not a wall of indicators — a workflow. Six stages from reading the market to reviewing the trade, each with the tools that stage really needs.

01 See the market

Read the tape the way it actually moves.

Chart & candles

A fast candlestick chart with drawings, 14 studies, and a steady price scale that doesn’t jump on every tick.

Volume profile

Where volume really traded — POC, value-area high & low — drawn right on the axis.

VWAP ±1σ / ±2σ

The day’s fair value with standard-deviation bands, so a stretch is a number, not a feeling.

Market internals

$TICK, $ADD, $TRIN, $VOLD and @ES in one breadth strip — the participation behind an SPX move.

Key levels & expected move

Prior-day H/L/C, the opening range, initial balance, and the VIX-implied envelope, plotted automatically.

Economic calendar

FOMC, CPI, jobs and OPEX as a strip and dashed chart markers, so a data landmine never surprises you.

02 Read the liquidity

See the positioning most retail never sees.

Options liquidity & GEX

Open interest and dealer gamma by strike — the call wall, the put wall, and the γ-flip that flips the regime.

Level 2 ladder

A dockable market-maker depth ladder for the names that carry it.

Liquidity heatmap

Resting size across price and time, with CVD and trade bubbles — walls, absorption, and where price gets pulled.

03 Execute

Build the trade, see the odds, fire at the tick.

Strategy builder + payoff

Every option structure with a live payoff panel: breakevens, max P&L, probability of profit, expected value, alpha.

Break & alert triggers

Arm a break of the day’s high or low, or the next alert touch — it fires the entry the instant it hits.

Options & stocks tickets

Trade SPXW 0DTE or SPY shares from one sheet — all four verbs, all four order types, DAY or GTC.

Calendar roll wizard

Build a mixed-expiry calendar and roll the short leg forward to keep the trade alive.

04 Manage the risk

The part that decides whether you’re still trading in a year.

ATR position sizer

Name the dollars you’ll risk; it sizes so a volatility-based stop loses exactly that — no more.

Risk engine + kill switch

Hard caps on size, debit, daily loss and open positions. One switch flattens everything and locks you out.

TP$ / SL$ position guard

A server-side guard that closes any trade at your dollar target or stop — priced on the real bid, with the tab closed.

SIM → LIVE

Prove a setup on paper and in replay before a dollar is live. The badge never lets you mistake one for the other.

05 Automate the desk

Remove the reflex — never the thinking.

AI auto-trade switch

An auditable, capped policy that can open a trade on its own inside strict daily and cooldown limits.

Phone push alerts

A buzz on your phone the moment a guard closes a position or the robot opens one — even away from the screen.

Stream Deck

Map place, close, kill and arm to physical keys, with a live P&L key — one press, no hunting.

Keyboard shortcuts

Every button is bindable to a key. A keyboard-driven cockpit beats a mouse in fast tape.

06 Learn & improve

Compound yourself, not just the account.

Trade journal + AI review

Every fill logged with the chart snapshot, tagged by setup and mistake. The AI surfaces the patterns you can’t see.

Bar replay

Rehearse setups on real past sessions, bar by bar, risk-free — it never places an order.

The SPX Day Trader’s Codex — book cover
The book

The SPX Day Trader’s Codex

Mastering 0DTE index options with the TraderIQ cockpit

The explanation I couldn’t give at the kitchen table — my strategy and my tools, written down properly. From reading a single candle to running a disciplined, automated desk: the opening range, the breakouts, the levels, the confluence, and the risk discipline that finally made it repeatable.

  • Candles, VWAP bands, volume profile & internals
  • Options liquidity, dealer GEX & the gamma flip
  • The full options toolbox with worked payoffs
  • Confluence templates & session walkthroughs
  • Risk, sizing & trade psychology
  • Every cockpit tool, taught the way it’s used
23Chapters
42Figures
216Pages
3Formats
$19.99 Get the book → EPUB · PDF · Hardcover
The story
“I could do it, but I couldn’t explain it. I was reading five things at once and calling it instinct — so I built the tool that put every one of those reads on a single screen.”

— Carmelo Milian, founder & trader