AN UNREAD MARKET DOES NOT STAY BLANK

Your brain fills the gap.Compass puts something real in it.

Compass reads the options board for you: where the size sits, how far price is from it, and what price did the last times it got there. For the day you trade and the weeks you hold.

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A 70 SECOND TOUR · NO SOUND NEEDED

TO THE KING

Real days, from the record.

The heaviest strike on the board is the King. These are sessions where price got there, each one dated, from the open to the touch.

$SPYThu, Oct 29

Twice to the King

$SPYWed, Oct 28

The King waited

$QQQTue, Oct 27

To the King, 720

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WHAT NOBODY ELSE SHIPS

Every tool shows you how big a level is. This one tells you what price did there.

Hover any strike and Compass gives you the sequence. First time here today, twenty three minutes so far. It broke up through here earlier and price is back on it, seven minutes so far. Fourth time here today, and it held the first three.

A level that has held three times and is being tested a fourth is a different trade from a level nobody has touched. It is the same public option chain everywhere you look. What happened when price actually met it is the part nobody else keeps.

COMPRESSTAPE moving 1.1FLIP 774.73
★ Raw King▸ Action Area
Spot 776.59
780
$34.5M
779
$71.8M
778
$59.6M
★ 777
$166.5M
776
$79.4M
775
$71.0M
▸ 774
$24.6M
▸ 773
-$8.7M
772
-$29.4M
771
-$8.6M

Teal absorbs, grey amplifies. The regime is the running total up to price, not any single colour.

ACTIVE ACTION AREA
773–774
SPOT
776.59
▲ Above · 3.09 pts
AA: call-heavyBook: put-weightedStableMV 2/3
Structure 773 potential false floor · 774 positive cap · Raw King: 777
ABOVE 773–774
Price is above 774, the upper boundary.
Below 776 (0.59 away, GK) → 775
Above 777 (0.41 away) → 778
WHAT TO WATCH
Accepted through the zone.
Watch hold or retest above 774.
READPositive gamma at this price. Dealer hedging works against the move. Range tends to compress.
BALANCEThe board balances at 776.36, level with price.
TAPEMoving efficiently, levels holding. Agrees with the book's lean.
OPEXMonthly expiry in 6 sessions. Positioning concentrates into it.

Inside the product, every read carries its full statistics: the rate, the sample size and the band around it. A percentage without those two things is decoration.

Illustrative values, in the product's own vocabulary.

TWO KINDS OF TRADER

The Compass reads today. The Telescope reads the distance.

Same board, same positioning, two horizons. Which lens matters is not a preference, it is a measurement, and it changes with how long you intend to hold.

THE MAP · THE SCREEN YOU TRADE BESIDE

The Map is the read.

The live map, the Live Card and the ladder. Everything else in Compass exists to support or check it.

WHICH LENS CARRIES THE WEIGHT
DAYS HELDGEXVEXCHEX
0 to 21.000.101.00
3 to 70.550.550.40
8 to 300.201.000.10
over 300.050.350.02

Inside two days, gamma and charm carry the weight and volatility carries almost none. CHEX is a day trading lens and the documentation says so.

ONE HYPOTHETICAL, ON THE RECORD

Banked before the bell. Then the week happened.

Monday 19 October, 05:59 PT. TSLA was 355.60. The nearest real structure standing apart from price sat at 400, in January. The board described one trade: a January call near the money, the 355 or the 360, into 395 to 400.

“88 days is enough time for a thesis to be early and still be right.” That line is on the card. So is what would end it: the structure leaving 400 week after week and not reappearing on a nearby strike or a later date.

Wednesday it traded 388. One week later it traded 397, inside the band.

Hypothetical, read from TSLA's board only. Compass banks one of these before the open for every name on the list, and not every card ends this way. More days from the record.

WHAT YOU GET

The app, the calls, and the people.

TRT COMPASS

The app on your own machine. The Map for today, the Telescope for the weeks you hold, and the Chart Room with the board drawn on your own candles.

THE MAP CHANNEL

Compass posts departures to the Discord as they form on a live board: the side, the level, the entry and the out. What you do between them is yours.

THE TELESCOPE CHANNEL

Every night at 5:50 PT, Compass reads every name on the list and posts the swings its boards describe, each with an entry, an out, and how long it stays open.

THE WEDNESDAY SESSIONS

A live group session every Wednesday night, and the Discord in between. Bring the board you could not read.

THE MATE · COMES WITH COMPASS

Ask your Compass.

The Mate runs in your own Claude and reads the Compass on your own machine, every room, then answers in plain English. On October 30 we asked it about SPY while the market was dropping hard:

  • Where’s the size at 745?
  • What’s below it?
  • What does a swing into year end look like?
  • Write us a plan we can share.

It told us where the King was, what ends the idea, and that Compass wasn't favoring a long yet. Then it asked us what it couldn't see.

It reads your board. You make the call.

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WHY BELIEVE IT

Every read on the screen had to survive the bench

There is a bench inside the product. It runs studies overnight, and members open it and watch what is being tried. Under Test in the Logbook shows the reads still being measured, before they are allowed to say anything.

A read reaches the screen only after forty logged live events. Under that bar it shows a count and no rate, because a percentage built on tens of events is a rumor whichever way it points.

See one finding the bench turned around

It tells you when the tape is fast and going nowhere

That is where accounts give back a week, and it is close to invisible from the inside, because a fast tape feels like opportunity while it is happening.

It has the largest sample of anything we measure, and it is on the screen to keep you out of it.

JQ, founder of The Realized Traders
WHO BUILT IT

Run by someone who cares about the trader, not just the trades.

I built Compass to take the urgency and the pressure out of trying to know what comes next. I don't need to know what's next. I just need to know what's in front of me, and that is what it shows.

It reads the board, interprets it, and gives you something you can act on, whether you trade the day or hold for weeks. I poured everything I have into it.

JQ · FOUNDER, THE REALIZED TRADERS

WHAT IT COSTS

Private Beta Pricing

Two subscriptions, not one. Both are stated below.

TRT Compass, private beta
$99/mo

Paid to us. Free for the first 30 days.

ThetaData Options Standard
$80/mo

Paid to ThetaData. This is their published monthly price as of 3 October 2026. They set it and bill it, we do not resell it, and TRT Compass does not run without it.

Your monthly total
$179/month
What the membership is
  • ✓ TRT Compass, with your own access key
  • ✓ The Discord
  • ✓ The Wednesday night group sessions
  • ✓ The Map channel
  • ✓ The Telescope channel
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Private Beta

The price you join at is the price you keep.

$99 a month holds for as long as your subscription stays active, including after the public release, when the price for new members goes to $175.

1.0 launches Saturday, November 7. Join before then and you keep $99, plus a free 1 on 1 session with us (normally $150) to go over anything in Compass.

REFERENCE

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I join the private beta?+

Press Start your free month anywhere on this page. Checkout is on Whop, the first 30 days are free, and you get your own access key and the steps for joining the TRT Compass Discord right after.

How much does TRT Compass cost?+

There are two costs and you should plan for both. TRT Compass Private Beta is $99 per month, paid to us. A ThetaData subscription is required on top of that, bought directly from ThetaData and billed by them at their own published rate. For Options Standard that was $80 per month when we checked on 3 October 2026, which makes $179 a month for both. We do not resell it and we receive no part of it. TRT Compass does not run without live ThetaData access, so if the second subscription is not something you want, this is not the right tool for you.

At the public release the price for new members goes to $175 a month. That is a membership, not a tool price: Compass itself, the Discord, the Wednesday night group sessions, and the Map channel and the Telescope channel that post Compass's boards to the room. If you join during the beta, your $99 rate holds after the public release for as long as your subscription stays active.

Requirements+

Windows 10 or 11 or macOS, a stable internet connection, and your own ThetaData subscription. Both Options Standard and Options Pro work with TRT Compass; the FAQ below explains the difference. ThetaData is purchased directly from ThetaData at their current published rate, it is not included with your TRT Compass subscription, and we receive no part of it.

Which ThetaData plan do I need?+

Both Options Standard and Options Pro work with TRT Compass, and nothing is locked, disabled or degraded on Standard. ThetaData publishes second-order greeks directly only on Pro; on Standard, Compass calculates them itself from the implied volatility Standard includes. We measured what that costs before offering it: across three symbols and all three lenses, the largest level was the same every time, the ten biggest levels were the same strikes, and the ladders matched to better than 99.7 percent. If you want figures identical to ThetaData's, choose Pro. If you want the same map for half the monthly cost, Standard is a real choice and we would not offer it if we had not checked it. We confirm the right plan for your setup during onboarding.

What exactly is an "Action Area"?+

It is the structural area of dealer positioning most likely to influence price right now. TRT Compass identifies it, shows how price is interacting with it, and lets you trace it back to the raw positioning underneath in the Engine Room.

What are the reads, and why do they only fire on SPY?+

The reads are named, measured conditions: MORNING PUSH, THE FAST TAPE and LATE PUSH, plus THE GRIND and the NET CROSS. Each fires only inside the window it was measured in. Where a read has earned a percentage it carries that percentage, its sample size and the band around it. Where it has not, it carries the condition and nothing else. LATE PUSH is the clearest case: it is MORNING PUSH's own condition after 3pm, the measurement comes out the other way, and it will not borrow the morning's number. One read was retired in August when its published figure did not survive re-measurement. The Record carries what is left after that. They fire on SPY only because every one of those figures was measured on SPY, and a number measured on one product is not a number about another. On other symbols the field, flip, tape and net keep working, because those are measurements of the board in front of you rather than borrowed statistics. The field on QQQ now stands on QQQ's own full-year measurement, added the moment it existed and not a day before.

Does TRT Compass tell me what to trade?+

It shows you what a trade off the long dated board would look like, labeled hypothetical, with the level that ends the idea. It stops short of placing it. The entry day, the stop and the size stay yours, and Compass holds no opinion about a position it has not been told exists.

Is Mac supported?+

Yes. macOS is supported, with separate builds for Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows 10 and 11 are supported as well.

What is Whop?+

Whop is the third-party membership and payment platform used to manage TRT Compass subscriptions and Discord access.

Is Discord access included?+

Yes. TRT Compass Beta includes access to the private TRT Compass support channels and the broader The Realized Traders community at no additional charge.

What support is included?+

Beta members receive guided onboarding, installation and ThetaData connection assistance, product troubleshooting, release updates, Discord support access, and organized channels for bugs and feedback. Support covers setup, functionality, terminology, and product use. It does not include trade alerts or financial advice.

How do I manage or cancel my membership?+

Membership and billing are managed through your Whop account. Cancellation prevents the next renewal, and access continues through the period already paid for, subject to the applicable membership terms.

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