Built for the account you're trying to keep.
Dealer walls, the gamma flip, the expected move, the regime. Every level shows how far away it is and how often price actually gets there. Most days, most levels don't. We say so. Around it: the daily pattern and momentum reads, the calendar, liquidity, the cross-market rail, and set-up lights that show entry, target and the window to play out in.
Your fills, stamped with what the screen showed when you clicked. Expectancy, MAE and win rate by regime, by session, by which trade of the week it was. Getting better, or getting lucky? It knows.
Height above the floor. How far you are from the trailing drawdown, the daily limit, the contract cap, the consistency rule and the flat-by clock. Your firm's plan, not a generic one.
Three years of figuring out what matters before the open. This is what survived.
One screen you can read top to bottom in under a minute. Which regime you're in. Where the levels sit and whether they're in reach. Which way the tape is leaning, what's on the calendar, how fast you've been trading, and how you're holding up. Signals. Not a wall of numbers.
Gamma flip 7,130 · between the walls a middle-third entry reaches a wall 1% of days · NDX book positive, flip 27,696.
Your fourth trade of the week averages −0.12R. Your first three average +0.55R. The line is yours; we only draw it.
Elevated, top decile of your own baseline. On days like this your MAE runs 1.4× normal. Know it before you click. Sleep and workouts come from your own watch, scored against your own baseline and your own rule.
ES · 06:30 CT · positive gamma call wall 7,715 +0.4 EM reach today 67% +1 EM 7,728 +0.6 EM tag odds 65% (EM 1.2 ATR) 240m EMA 7,713 spot 7,673 0.5 ATR under the EMA −1 EM 7,618 put wall 7,540 −2.9 EM reach today 1% between the walls: a middle-third entry reaches a wall before returning to entry 1% of days
A level only counts if price can actually get there.
Most published walls sit two or three expected moves away and never print. We went and measured it, across hundreds of sessions. So every level here shows its distance and the odds it gets touched today, and you know which ones are targets and which ones are wallpaper.
- Futures-native: gamma from ES, NQ, RTY options, not an SPX proxy
- Regime flag: gamma sign × liquidity × session phase
- Nothing here says buy or sell. It says where, and how often.
- Pattern and momentum: NR7, inside and outside days, Pinball 2-ROC, ROC and 3/10 divergences, range expansion
- Set-up lights (Pro) with the trade plan: where to enter, where to sell, and by when it should have played out
- The rest of the state: calendar with the almanac lean, Fed and TGA liquidity, 10y, dollar, oil, gold, vehicle strength
It grades you against you.
Every fill gets stamped with what the screen showed at the moment you clicked. Thirty trades in, you can see which conditions you actually make money in. And which ones you only think you do.
- Read-only sync from ProjectX, Tradovate, Rithmic, NinjaTrader export, CSV
- Expectancy and MAE by regime, session, gate, trade number of the week
- Cells under 30 trades are not reported. Small samples lie.
- Open any trade: notes, tags, an execution rating, screenshots, planned stop and target, so every fill carries an R
- MAE and MFE from the intraday bars over the trade, a running P&L line, and the give-back you left on the table
- R per trade and MFE-against-MAE across the period, a search over your record, and a CSV of any view
last 60 trades · R-multiples positive gamma n=38 +0.42R win 58% MAE 0.6R negative gamma n=22 −0.31R win 36% MAE 1.1R first 3 trades / wk n=27 +0.55R trade 4+ / wk n=33 −0.12R after 10:30 CT n=19 −0.40R pace this week: 4 trades · your norm 5
Topstep XFA 50K 2026-09-12 14:40 CT balance now $550 (EOD peak $1,000) max loss floor −$1,000 room $1,550 daily loss limit −$1,000 room $550 today −$450 contracts 2 / 2 at cap next step $1,500 consistency 34% target ≤ 40% winning days 2 / 5 ($150+ each) flat by 15:10 30 min
The rule lives in a PDF. The breach happens on your screen.
One touch of the trailing drawdown and the funded account is gone. Tapeworm turns every rule into a number that moves with your open P&L, so "how much room do I have" stops being mental math at 2:58 with a position on.
- Trailing max loss, end-of-day or intraday, exactly as your firm computes it
- Daily loss limit, contract scaling by balance, consistency ratio
- Minutes to flat-by, counted down
Not a journal. A flight recorder for your trading.
Every fill lands stamped with the state of the market and the state of you: how you slept, your training, your heart rate, how many trades you'd already taken. Blackbox finds your own patterns from the data, not from what you remember to write down: the hour you give money back, the set-up that only works for you, the short nights that cost you the next morning. Prop account or your own money, and the data is yours. Export it whenever you like, in a format Tradervue and a plain spreadsheet can both open.
No prop firm? Connect your broker or drop in a CSV. The Altimeter shows your limits instead of a firm's. Same math.
Anything under 30 trades stays hidden. Small samples flatter everybody.
Meet Moneyness. She explains the screen, then reads your record back to you.
Every number on Tapeworm has a reason behind it, and you shouldn't need a textbook to find it. Moneyness sits in the corner of every page. Ask what negative gamma means and she answers with today's flip, not a definition from 2009. Ask when you trade best and she does the math on your own fills. The one thing she won't do is tell you what to trade. That stays your call.
what does negative gamma mean?
Dealers hedge in the same direction as price: they sell into weakness and buy into strength. Moves get amplified, so ranges widen and trends can run further than usual.Right now ES is in negative gamma (flip 7,764.64).
when am I least profitable?
Across your 129 trades, your least profitable entry hours are 1 PM to 2 PM ET: −$412 over 18 trades, 39% winners (only 18 trades, thin).
should I short here?
I can explain what the numbers mean, but I can't tell you what to trade, whether to buy or sell, or where price will go. The decision and the risk are always yours.
- The TapeGamma, walls, the flip, the EM band, with the numbers you're looking at.
- Options basicsThe greeks, vanna, charm, and why they matter to a futures trader: dealers hedge their options by trading the futures, so the greeks show where that forced buying and selling tends to come from.
- Your recordYour best and worst hours, weekdays, long vs short, which setups pay.
- Your habitsRe-entries right after a loss, and days you went over your own max.
- The appHow Blackbox, the Altimeter and imports work.
When she doesn't know something, she says so. We read every question she couldn't answer and teach her, so she knows a little more each week.
Once you have 40 closed trades she answers from your own fills: when you make money and when you give it back, which setups pay, whether you jump back in within ten minutes of a loss, how often you go over your own trades-per-day rule. Anything under 40 trades is flagged as thin. Small samples flatter everybody.
Price tags the bottom of the expected-move band and the itch says short it. She'll point out that the day has already made the move the options market priced, so that's where shorts usually take profit, not where new ones start. Same at the top, the other way round.
Ask her to pick a side and she declines, every time, however you phrase it. She explains what the screen and your record say. The trade is yours. Tapeworm is information and education, not advice.