Options Flow, Signals, and Fundamentals for 49 Shipping and Energy Names
Tools | Rhodie House Options Intelligence | April 2026
The main options flow platform filters by dollar premium at thresholds calibrated for small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap and mega-cap names. Those thresholds work well for names that trade at institutional scale every day, but they are too high for shipping and energy. A $200,000 options print in a mid-cap tanker or dry bulk name represents meaningful directional conviction. At the main platform thresholds, it disappears.
The Shipping and Energy dashboard solves that. It runs on the same live classified feed as the main platform, covers 49 US-listed names across every major segment of the space, and sets the notional threshold at $100,000 across the entire watchlist. That single change surfaces a significant amount of flow that would otherwise be invisible. Nine tabs give you the full picture around that flow: signals, price action, valuations, insider activity, dividends, and corporate events, all in one place.
Flow
The primary tab. Live classified options flow for all 49 watchlist names, pulled from the same feed as the main platform and classified using the same logic: calls bought, puts bought, spreads, risk reversals, rolls, and complex structures. Green is bullish, red is bearish, blue is neutral or complex. Filter by sector using the sidebar on the left, set your time period to Today, 5 days, or 1 month, and leave it running.
The ranking bar at the top shows the most active bullish and bearish names by total dollar notional over the selected period. It is the fastest way to see which names are accumulating directional interest over days or weeks rather than just in the current session.
Signals
Every ticker scored 0 to 100, ranked from highest to lowest. The composite score is 60% technical and 40% macro. The technical side measures five inputs: position relative to the 200-day moving average, the 50/200 relationship, RSI versus 50, 4-week momentum, and volume relative to the 20-day average. The macro side uses sector-specific commodity and freight factors scored by 20-day momentum. Crude tankers weight the crude freight ETF and Brent. Dry bulk weights the dry freight ETF and iron ore. Product tankers weight the gas and diesel crack spreads. Each sector is calibrated to the factors that actually drive it.
A bullish flow print arriving in a name already scoring Strong Bull is a higher-conviction setup than the same print in a name scoring Neutral. The Signals tab gives you that context before the session starts.
The macro strip across the top shows the live value and 20-day momentum for every macro input. If Brent is down 8% over 20 days, crude tanker scores will be suppressed on the macro side regardless of how their charts look. The strip keeps those two components visible and separate.
Vol Scan and Top Movers
Vol Scan shows real-time price and volume data for all 49 names. The primary column is the relative volume ratio: current volume versus the 10-day average. Click any column header to re-sort. A 52-week range bar gives price context at a glance. Top Movers ranks the same data by intraday price change, with Gainers, Losers, and Volume views.
The most useful habit is to check Vol Scan before looking at the Flow tab. A name running 3x normal volume alongside a significant classified options print is a different situation than the options trade appearing in quiet equity tape. When the equity volume and the options flow line up in the same direction at the same time, the signal is stronger than either one on its own.
Dividends, Insider Trades, and Corporate Actions
Three context tabs that sit alongside the flow data and change how you read it.
Dividends shows upcoming ex-dates for watchlist names filtered from Nasdaq. Shipping names, tanker companies in particular, pay large variable dividends tied to quarterly earnings. Those distributions affect options behavior around ex-dates in specific ways and the calendar keeps that timing visible without a separate lookup.
Insider Trades pulls buy and sell transactions filtered to watchlist tickers. Insider buying in shipping carries specific weight because many of these companies are founder-led or closely held. When management is purchasing shares in a levered dry bulk operator after a rate cycle drawdown, that is material context for any flow you see in the same name.
Corporate Actions shows upcoming earnings dates and splits. A large directional print in a name with earnings in four days reads differently than the same print with nothing on the calendar. This tab ensures you always know the timing context when flow arrives in names approaching binary events.
Valuation
Financial metrics for all 49 names sourced from public filings: price, market cap, cash, total debt, net debt, working capital, ND/EBITDA, Debt/Equity, and P/Book. Click any ticker to open a full drill-down with a broader balance sheet breakdown. The table is sortable by any column.
Use this tab before acting on a flow print in a name you are not familiar with. Knowing whether you are looking at a clean balance sheet operator or a levered name with a high debt-to-equity ratio changes the trade. A large bullish print in a name carrying 6x ND/EBITDA at trough freight rates carries different risk than the same print in a name sitting on net cash.
Leverage reads differently in shipping than in most sectors. A company that looks dangerously levered at trough freight rates can look entirely different at peak rates. Use the Valuation tab as context for the flow, not as an absolute filter.
Sector Performance
Price performance by sector across 1D, 1W, 1M, and YTD. Within each sector, names are ranked best to worst by their 1-day return. The sector header row shows the average across all four periods for every name in the group.
Shipping is not one sector. Crude tankers, product tankers, dry bulk, and containerships each trade on different rate cycles driven by different commodity and demand dynamics. A week where crude tankers are up 8% while dry bulk is down 3% tells you where capital is rotating and which freight markets are actually moving. Sector Perf makes that rotation visible across all groups at once.
The Watchlist
49 US-listed names across 14 sectors: crude tankers (DHT, FRO, NAT, ECO, TNK), product tankers (ASC, HAFN, STNG, TRMD), crude and product combined (INSW, TEN), dry bulk (CMDB, DSX, EDRY, GNK, HSHP, PANL, SB, SHIP, SBLK), containerships (CMRE, DAC, ESEA, GSL), container liner (MATX, ZIM), LPG (BWLP, LPG, GASS, NVGS), LNG (CCEC, DLNG, FLNG), offshore drilling (BORR, NE, SDRL, RIG, VAL, OIH), pipelines (ET, EPD, KNTK, PAA), diversified fleet (CMBT, NMM, SFL), FLNG rigs (GLNG), shuttle tankers (KNOP), and diversified parent (TK). Non-US listed names are excluded. Every name on the list has liquid US-listed options.
How to Access It
The Shipping and Energy dashboard is available to all Rhodie House Discord members.