Volland Alternative: TradeAI News vs Volland
Prices and features checked on October 30, 2026 · Volland figures from vol.land, as of that date
Volland suits traders who work intraday and with same-day expirations from dealer exposure inferred trade by trade, across thousands of tickers. TradeAI News suits traders who want the same second-order greeks (gamma, vanna and charm) estimated from published open interest, with the method on the page, next to insider filings, short interest and event studies, at a fraction of the price: Pro is $59/mo, against $150/mo for Volland Swing, its first plan with exposure charts (as of Oct 30, 2026).
Side by side
| What | TradeAI News | Volland · as of Oct 30, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| How dealer positioning is estimated | From published open interest, assuming dealers are long calls and short puts. Every chart is labeled “Estimated, not observed” and shows its open interest date. | Each options trade is assigned to the dealer’s side from its execution price, implied volatility, a fair-value model and the bid/ask spread, then summed by strike and expiration [V1] |
| Exposures | Delta, gamma, vega, vanna, charm and vomma, by strike and by expiration; call wall, put wall and gamma flip; weekly, monthly and all-expiration views for SPY and QQQ, with equivalent ES and NQ levels (in the dashboard); IV skew and term structure; implied vs realized volatility | Charm, delta, delta-adjusted gamma, delta decay (from its same-day expiration plan), gamma, rho, theta, vanna, vega and vomma; spot-vol correlation from the Insight plan [V1][V2] |
| Theta and rho exposure | Not available | Yes [V1] |
| Ticker coverage | SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM and SPX (monthly contracts); Nasdaq-100 as a labeled QQQ proxy; other optionable US tickers computed when you open them | All US stocks, ETFs and indices, about 4,500 tickers, with the model focused on the 1,000 most liquid by option volume [V1] |
| Update frequency | Recomputed through the session with current spot and implied volatility; positioning from published open interest (1–2 sessions old) | Every 2 minutes on every plan during market hours; the same-day expiration view every 5 minutes [V1][V2] |
| Same-day expirations | Not available | Yes, from its same-day expiration plan ($250/mo), refreshed every 5 minutes [V2] |
| Beyond options | SEC Form 4 insider filings, FINRA short interest and fails-to-deliver, offering filings, unusual volume, Event Study, Regime Atlas, Time Machine, a trade journal with market context, Portfolio Research and My Exposure (in the dashboard) | Not listed on the pages read |
| Entry price with exposure charts | Pro, $59/mo (Basic $29/mo has the SPY Gamma Heatmap; Elite $99/mo) | Swing, $150/mo. VolHacks, $99/mo, has screeners but no exposure charts [V2] |
| Free trial | 21 days of Pro, no card; public SPY gamma view without an account | No free trial; free Volland Academy [V1] |
Volland column from [V1] vol.land/faq and [V2] vol.land/pricing, both as of October 30, 2026. “Not listed on the pages read” means we did not find it there, not that it does not exist. TradeAI News column from tradeainews.com/gamma-exposure, /features and /pricing.
Choose Volland if…
- You want dealer positioning inferred from the day’s trades, so it changes during the session as trades come in, not once a day when open interest is published.
- You trade same-day expirations. Volland covers them from its same-day expiration plan ($250/mo); TradeAI News does not cover them.
- You need exposures refreshed every 2 minutes across about 4,500 tickers, with theta and rho exposure, delta-adjusted gamma and, on higher plans, delta decay and spot-vol correlation.
- You want exposure data through an API, available on select Volland plans.
Choose TradeAI News if…
- You want to see how every number is computed: the formula, the sign convention and the open interest date are on each chart.
- You want gamma, vanna and charm for a ticker next to its SEC Form 4 insider filings, FINRA short interest, fails-to-deliver and offering filings.
- You study how large past moves around events have been, with the Event Study (magnitude against random dates) and the Regime Atlas, without any forecast.
- You keep a trade journal that records the market context at each entry.
- You want to try it first: 21 days of Pro without a card, and paid plans from $29/mo.
A note on methodology
Dealers do not publish their positions, so neither tool observes them: both estimate them. An open-interest method, which TradeAI News uses, starts from the contracts outstanding after settlement and assumes which side dealers hold, usually long calls and short puts. Anyone can reproduce and check it, but it cannot see who opened each contract, and the open interest is one to two sessions old. A trade-inference method, which Volland uses, assigns each trade on the consolidated options trade feed to the dealer’s side from where it printed against the quote and a fair value, then adds the trades up. It follows the session as it unfolds, but each assignment is itself an inference, and trades at the midpoint or inside multi-leg orders are harder to assign. The two methods can disagree on the same strike on the same day. Read either one as an estimate of structure, not as a forecast of direction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources
- V1 · vol.land/faq · as of October 30, 2026
- V2 · vol.land/pricing · as of October 30, 2026
See the method next to the levels
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Last updated November 1, 2026