Methodology & risk

Scope

We discuss listed U.S. equity options and published short-interest statistics only. We do not cover event-contract or other non-equity option products. Branding avoids scam-adjacent vocabulary and is unrelated to any hardware wallet vendor.

Universe

A fixed 200 U.S. names: roughly 150 options-liquidity names plus ~50 interest/short-interest seeds. The set does not rotate daily (SEO-stable URLs). hot is only a tag for elevated activity inside that set.

Data sources & cadence

• Options chains, prices, earnings dates — Yahoo Finance via batch jobs (daily after the U.S. close)
• Short interest — FINRA reporting cycle via public redistribution (biweekly settlement; every figure shows as-of)
• IV Rank — accumulated daily IV snapshots (shows “accumulating” until history is sufficient)

Thresholds (initial)

{
  "putCall": {
    "bearishGte": 0.7,
    "bullishLte": 0.5
  },
  "unusual": {
    "volOiMultipleGte": 3,
    "hotStockMultipleGte": 5
  },
  "iv": {
    "richGte": 70,
    "cheapLte": 30,
    "minHistoryDays": 60
  },
  "shortInterest": {
    "highPctFloatGte": 15
  },
  "universe": {
    "totalCap": 200,
    "liquidityCoreTarget": 150,
    "interestSeedTarget": 50,
    "hotVolumeSurgeMultiple": 3,
    "hotDecayDays": 5,
    "hotTagMax": 50
  }
}

Language rules

• No absolute claims (“will rise 100%”). Prefer “pattern often associated with…”
• No scam-adjacent branding words in product UI (see checklist in the build instructions)
• Missing or accumulating data is shown explicitly — never silently invented