I score names on near-dated call flow — 0–7 DTE, how aggressive the buying is, and how close the big pile of call open interest is to spot. Short-dated matters because dealers have to hedge it now, not next month.
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# Today's top 12:
|Ticker|Score|Price|Call wall|Room|Call prem|Call vol|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|GME|85|$18.78 (+2.15%)|$19|\+1.2%|$309K|21,375|
|WMT|82|$106.03 (+1.11%)|$106|0.0%|$2.3M|24,548|
|AVGO|81|$371.28 (+0.25%)|$400|\+7.7%|$2.5M|5,156|
|GOOG|75|$333.83 (-0.47%)|$350|\+4.8%|$2.6M|28,364|
|SMCI|75|$37.23 (-0.12%)|$39|\+4.7%|—|26,668|
|BAC|73|$61.99 (+0.09%)|$63|\+1.6%|$1.8M|26,265|
|MRNA|73|$151.85 (+8.20%)|$170|\+12%|$10.2M|30,276|
|AAPL|71|$325.14 (+2.62%)|$327.5|\+0.7%|$175.5M|1,124,683|
|IREN|70|$36.43 (-1.85%)|$40|\+9.8%|$598K|13,115|
|NBIS|69|$197.90 (-4.08%)|$200|\+1.1%|$2.9M|4,674|
|META|68|$577.60 (+0.92%)|$580|\+0.4%|$71.9M|240,569|
|GTLB|67|$52.90 (+13.67%)|$50|\-5.5%|$2.8M|27,995|
^(The score is one number but the setups underneath it isn't the same trade.)
$MRNA, IREN, AVGO, GOOG and SMCI all still have room — 4.7% to 12% before spot hits the wall. That's where the actual mechanic lives. Dealers keep buying shares as price grinds toward the strike, they're short. Heavy call volume by itself isn't the squeeze, the distance is.
$WMT is sitting exactly on its wall. Zero room. The buying that got it there has already been hedged, so there's not much left to push it. $AAPL, META, NBIS and BAC are basically in the same spot — good scores, nowhere to go. That's not a weaker signal; it's the same setup later in its life. Most of the push is probably behind it.
$GTLB is the weird one. Spot's already above the wall, which is why the room number is negative. Either it broke clean through dealer resistance and the flow keeps chasing, or it ran past its hedging structure and there's nothing mechanical under it anymore. The score can't tell you which one, and neither can I.
# How it's built, if you care:
call-heavy ratio is today's call volume over the name's recent average. Wall is the nearest strike above spot with the fattest call OI. Room is just (wall − spot) / spot. The score mixes that ratio with ask-side aggression, weights 0–7 DTE heavier, and folds in one-day momentum. It's all from today's tape so it goes stale in hours, not days.