GEX AcademyYour map — shaping what is computed for you
Until now the map was the same for everyone. From this lesson on, it is yours: you decide what the map keeps and how the Focus levels are ranked, and the same profile follows you onto every platform.
"Your map" is an account-level profile, not a display setting. It is applied by the server before the levels reach your chart — so the Chrome overlay, gex-levels.com/levels, NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, ATAS, MotiveWave and Quantower all draw the same customised map. There is no local copy to keep in sync, and no "which setting wins" question: one profile, everywhere.
Two decisions, nothing else
What the map keeps. Four modes. Full is everything the Indicator computes. GEX only keeps the walls, the flip, zero gamma and the profile — the pure dealer-gamma read. Minimal keeps walls and flip. Custom lets you switch families on and off yourself: Focus levels, zones, vol trigger, max pain, OI walls, zero DEX, vanna, charm, vega, hybrid walls, extenders, forecast bands, order flow. Anything you switch off is removed server-side; it does not exist for you on any platform.
How the Focus levels are computed. The engine ranks every strike near spot by a weighted score of five ingredients — gamma, open interest, DEX, vanna, charm — multiplied by proximity to spot, and keeps the top three. The default recipe, Balanced, weighs them 32 / 20 / 12 / 16 / 20. You can switch to GEX only (gamma alone), Open interest (positioning alone), Flow (DEX, vanna and charm — the hedging-flow read), or set your own weights. Two more knobs: the window around spot the engine looks at (±1%, ±2%, ±3.5% or ±5%) and how many Focus levels it draws (1 to 3).
Where to edit it
- In the overlay: the Map tab of the TradingView panel. Change, then Save to my account. The chart refreshes with the new map within a poll.
- In the extension options: the "Your map — account profile" section, same controls, same profile.
- On the site: gex-levels.com/levels, the "Your map" block.
- On the native platforms: read-only. The Context tab shows a "Your map" line (for example GEX only · Focus: OI (3)) so you always know which profile the chart is drawing.
Why the weights matter more than the toggles
Hiding a family is cosmetic. Changing the recipe changes which prices become your Focus levels. A pure open-interest recipe surfaces the strikes where positioning is heaviest — often the ones that pin. A flow recipe surfaces where dealer hedging is most forced — often the ones that accelerate. Balanced sits between them, and it is the recipe our published hold rates were measured on. If you change the recipe, you are choosing a different question to ask the chain, and you should expect different behaviour at the levels: read the level statistics page again with that in mind.
No recipe turns the levels into signals. The measured hold rates, the trade studies and the paper track record on the level statistics page all say the same thing: the map is context, and the recipe only changes which context you look at.
Try this
Switch the recipe to Open interest for one session and note where the Focus levels move. Then switch to Flow. Write one line in the journal about which set price actually respected — and switch back to Balanced before you decide anything, because one session proves nothing.