- API
- Options flow
- Smart money flow
Options flow API, GET /smart-money/{ticker}
Which NVDA trades look institutional today?
Trades that pass the size, opening-position and moneyness filters, scored. Filters today's flow for large premium, likely opening positions and out-of-the-money contracts with time, returns each with the criteria it met and a score.
The answer, in one call
Units first,
then the request.
premium in dollars; smart_money_score is a 0 to 100 heuristic.
Heuristic filters on the same flow data as /flow; not attributed to any counterparty.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer avmcp_YOUR_TOKEN" \
"https://apexvol.com/api/mcp/data/smart-money/NVDA"import requests
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer avmcp_YOUR_TOKEN"}
r = requests.get("https://apexvol.com/api/mcp/data/smart-money/NVDA", headers=headers)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()["data"]
print(data["total_smart_trades"])Are there any institutional-looking trades on NVDA today?
The assistant calls get_smart_money_flow and answers from the JSON below.{
"success": true,
"data": {
"smart_money_trades": [
{
"ask": 4.0,
"bid": 3.95,
"criteria": [
"Large Premium",
"Opening Position",
"OTM with Time"
],
"delta": 0.2642,
"dte": 38,
"expiration": "2026-10-16",
"is_unusual": false,
"mid": 3.975,
"moneyness": "OTM",
"oi": 69150,
"premium": 5400037.5,
"smart_money_score": 8,
"strike": 250.0,
"ticker": "NVDA",
"timestamp": "2026-09-08T08:07:26.352058",
"type": "CALL",
"volume": 13585,
"volume_oi_ratio": 0.1965
},
{
"ask": 0.74,
"bid": 0.72,
"criteria": [
"Large Premium",
"Opening Position",
"Aggressive Entry"
],
"delta": 0.104,
"dte": 10,
"expiration": "2026-09-18",
"is_unusual": false,
"mid": 0.73,
"moneyness": "OTM",
"oi": 87596,
"premium": 2234457.0,
"smart_money_score": 7,
"strike": 250.0,
"ticker": "NVDA",
"timestamp": "2026-09-08T08:07:26.279270",
"type": "CALL",
"volume": 30609,
"volume_oi_ratio": 0.3494
},
{
"ask": 2.25,
"bid": 2.19,
"criteria": [
"Large Premium",
"Opening Position",
"OTM with Time"
],
"delta": 0.1801,
"dte": 38,
"expiration": "2026-10-16",
"is_unusual": false,
"mid": 2.22,
"moneyness": "OTM",
"oi": 31871,
"premium": 1314240.0,
"smart_money_score": 8,
"strike": 260.0,
"ticker": "NVDA",
"timestamp": "2026-09-08T08:07:26.352193",
"type": "CALL",
"volume": 5920,
"volume_oi_ratio": 0.1857
}
],
"ticker": "NVDA",
"timestamp": "2026-09-08T08:07:26.381762",
"total_smart_trades": 99
}
}Every response is wrapped as {"success": true, "data": {...}}. Lists in the sample are cut to a few rows so it fits on a page; the shape is exactly what your code receives.
Parameters
Bounded,
and the bounds are stated.
Out-of-range numbers are clamped to the documented range, never silently changed to something else. A missing required field returns 400 with the reason.
| Name | In | Default | Range | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ticker required | path | any covered symbol | The underlying, upper case. Use /search to check coverage. |
Field by field
What each
number means.
smart_money_trades[].strike, expiration, type, premium, volume, oi- The trade.
smart_money_trades[].criteria, smart_money_score- Why it qualified.
total_smart_trades- Count.
Access, limits, errors
Before the
first call.
- Plan
- Premium Premium and above. Tokens are issued to paid and trial accounts from $55 a month; each endpoint follows the tier of its web feature. An endpoint above your plan answers 402 and names the plan it needs.
- Auth
- Bearer token, prefix
avmcp_, created under Account, then API Access. Shown once, hashed at rest, rotates in one click. Always callhttps://apexvol.com, never www. - Limits
- 60 requests a minute and 1,000 an hour per token, plus a monthly allowance by plan. Every response carries the remaining counts in
X-RateLimit-*headers; a 429 carriesRetry-Afterin seconds. - Errors
401no or revoked token;429Retry-After seconds;403Premium plan required;424data feed unavailable, retry. The full list with payload shapes is on the errors page.- Since
- API 1.0. Units, bases and timestamps follow the conventions shared by every endpoint; changes are logged in the API changelog.
- Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown, the family as one file, the whole API as llms-full.txt or OpenAPI 3.1.
The same data, in plain English
Ask for it
in an MCP client.
Connect the ApexVol MCP server and the assistant calls get_smart_money_flow by name. One URL, a sign-in, no token to paste.
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From $55 a month, tier-matched: your token queries the data your plan includes and Pro unlocks the full surface.
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