The Whale Map draws a ticker's price history and pins two kinds of smart-money context on it: disclosed Senate STOCK Act trades at their transaction dates, and open-interest surges where new contracts were opened and held overnight — computed from ConvexRadar's own retained chain snapshots.
Intraday volume spikes often close out the same day. Whale Map's OI pins compare open interest across sessions from retained chain snapshots, so a pin means new contracts were opened and still existed the next day — positioning, not churn.
Congressional disclosures and options positioning have nothing to do with each other mechanically — which is why seeing both on the same price axis is useful. When they cluster around the same period, that is worth your research time; the map never claims it is worth your money.
Congressional pins carry the up-to-45-day filing lag and STOCK Act amount ranges. OI surges come from ConvexRadar's own snapshot history, not a licensed tape. Both limits are printed on the page because context you can trust beats signals you cannot.
Either a disclosed Senate STOCK Act trade for that ticker, pinned at its transaction date, or an open-interest surge where new contracts were opened and held at least overnight in ConvexRadar's retained chain snapshots.
No. There is no dark-pool feed and no licensed full options tape here. The map combines public congressional disclosures with open-interest deltas computed from ConvexRadar's own scan history, and says so.
The per-ticker Whale Map view is part of the Founder tier ($29/mo, 5-day trial). It pairs naturally with the congress trades tracker and the options flow scanner.
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