SOURCE AND FRESHNESS

Black Sigma Data Coverage

This page states exactly what the product can verify today. A feature remains unavailable until the required feed is connected, licensed for member use, tested, and monitored.

SCANNER ENGINEAVAILABLEDaily plus delayed current-session underlying analysis
UNDERLYING CADENCE5-MIN BARS / UP TO 15-MIN DELAYFive-minute candle detail with the newest 15 minutes excluded
LICENSED OPTIONS ACTIVITYCHECKINGVerifying Unusual Whales connection
PUBLIC RECORDFORWARD LOGGEDAlerts are timestamped before outcomes mature
CAPABILITYSTATUSWHAT IT MEANS
Underlying price and volumeAVAILABLEDaily OHLCV bars support trend, momentum, ATR, liquidity, breakout, squeeze, and volume calculations.
Current-session confirmationUP TO 15-MIN DELAYFive-minute underlying bars support VWAP confirmation, but the newest 15 minutes are excluded. Use this to prepare and verify live price in your broker before any decision.
Intraday streamingNOT CONNECTEDNo consolidated real-time equity WebSocket currently drives the scanner.
Options bid and askUNVERIFIEDNo member-facing OPRA quote feed is connected, so spread and executable midpoint are not claimed.
Options flow and dark-pool activityCHECKINGUnusual Whales activity is summarized only when the licensed request returns. Ask/bid location is activity context—not proof of intent.
IV and GreeksUNVERIFIEDContract-level IV, delta, gamma, theta, and vega require a licensed options dataset or a disclosed model.
30-day builds and alert ledgerAVAILABLEForward-recorded scanner observations are grouped without backfilling historical winners.
News and public catalystsAVAILABLECurrent news and SEC/FDA public-source checks add context. Congress coverage is shown only when its connector is ready.
Realistic paper fillsPLANNEDRequires bid/ask data plus explicit spread, slippage, latency, fees, and partial-fill assumptions.

Path to true real-time options research

  1. License a commercial equity and OPRA options feed that permits use inside a multi-user paid application.
  2. Add a provider-neutral normalization layer for underlyings, contracts, quotes, trades, Greeks, open interest, and timestamps.
  3. Run a persistent market-data worker and WebSocket fan-out instead of relying only on request-time serverless scans.
  4. Store forward observations and contract snapshots for auditable testing, paper fills, and performance reporting.
  5. Change the header badge to REAL-TIME only after latency, coverage, reconnect behavior, and licensing are verified.
Gateway ready, member license pending: Black Sigma now has a secure server-side provider adapter. Personal market-data plans still do not grant redistribution rights to paying website members, so public option-chain fields remain unavailable until a commercial agreement is recorded and configured.