An event has a shape
An earnings surprise, an acquisition, a policy shift, a rate decision, a supply shock — these are not novel. Each one has moved through the market before, and the options chain recorded what happened next.
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VEGA knows which side paid.
When today’s catalyst closely resembles one that has already resolved, VEGA tells you the direction, the specific contract to open, and when to be out. It matches against a library of over 440,000 real option outcomes — earnings, M&A, rate decisions, sector shocks — each one priced on the actual options chain at the time. When the match is not strong enough, nothing goes out.
Built for options traders who cannot monitor the market during the day. Every alert arrives with a stated reason — the event, the direction, and the historical pattern it matched. You decide whether to act; every order is yours.
- Right on direction and still lost money holding through earnings? On a scheduled catalyst, VEGA is designed to be out before the announcement.
- In a meeting when you should have sold? You hear while the position runs, and the moment it turns against you — not at the next scheduled update.
- No performance sheet. We are in private validation and publish no win rate, return figure or equity curve — and you should be sceptical of any options product that leads with one.
At a glance
- Approach
- Event-driven — the catalyst selects the ticker, research into that ticker's role in the event decides the side, and a library of resolved events decides whether to act at all
- Library
- 440,000+ resolved historical option positions, each priced on the real chain at the time
- Instrument
- Listed equity and ETF options — calls and puts, treated equally
- Horizon
- Multi-day positions, typically two to six weeks to expiry
- Entry timing
- Positioned during the run-up, often well ahead of a dated catalyst rather than the day before it
- Trigger
- A real catalyst — earnings, corporate action, policy, macro release, shock
- Exit timing
- Aimed at the peak of the move — today that means exiting a scheduled catalyst before it resolves; deciding that per event from the research is in development
- Execution
- Yours. VEGA has no access to your account and places no orders
- Delivery
- Email — open alert, position updates, urgent adverse exit, close signal
How timing works (scheduled catalysts)
Catalyst dated
Position into the run-up
Out before it resolves
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What sets VEGA apart
The differences that decide whether a recommendation is worth trusting.
Starts from the event, not the ticker
Most tools screen a watchlist and go hunting for a reason. VEGA reads what moved the market — the earnings report, the policy change, the shock — and derives the companies from that. The catalyst comes first; the direction comes from it.
Both sides. Every event.
One catalyst helps some companies and hurts others. VEGA maps those roles and works both sides — a call for the beneficiary, a put for the one that took the hit. A rough quarter is as tradeable as a beat. PUTs are first-class, not a hedge.
Nothing when nothing fits
If today's setup doesn't match a known winning pattern closely enough, nothing goes out. An empty inbox is the system declining to spend your capital — not a failure. The bar exists to stay above, never to lower it on a slow day.
In during anticipation, out before the announcement
For scheduled catalysts — earnings, policy decisions, macro releases — the edge is usually in the run-up, not the outcome. VEGA positions into the anticipation and steps out before the binary event. That is what avoids the IV-crush risk that kills most options positions carried blindly through the date.
A complete lifecycle, not a tip
You hear when to open, position updates while it runs, an urgent exit if conditions turn against it, and a close signal aimed at the peak. From entry to exit, you are never left wondering what to do next.
Real prices, not a back-fitted model
Every lesson in the library is built from the actual options chain — what it cost to open, what it paid to close, in the real market at the time. When VEGA matches today's setup to a historical one, it is comparing prices that were genuinely executable — not a simulated equivalent. The library spans over 440,000 resolved historical positions.
Exits at the peak — nothing left behind
Getting out is as deliberate as getting in. VEGA estimates where a position is likely to top out — scaling what its closest historical analogues achieved under today's conditions — and is designed to close there, not wherever a trailing stop happens to fire. A position that peaked and rode back down is counted as a failure in its own right, not a smaller win.
The premise
The shape of every shock has been seen before.
Most trading tools try to predict a price. VEGA does something narrower, and more tractable: it recognises a situation. When a catalyst hits, it looks for the historical episodes that same catalyst most closely resembles — and reads what those episodes did to the options that were on the board at the time.
Recognition, not prediction
VEGA does not forecast a price. It answers a narrower and more answerable question: does what is happening today resemble an event we have already watched resolve, and how closely? A strong match earns a recommendation. Anything weaker produces nothing at all.
Every event has two sides
A tariff announcement rewards one supplier and punishes another. A contract win lifts the winner and rerates its rivals. VEGA works both halves of a story, so a bad quarter is as tradeable to you as a good one.
How VEGA times a scheduled catalyst — earnings, rate decision, macro release
Catalyst dated
A named, dated catalyst starts the clock
Position into the run-up
Entry while anticipation is still building — often weeks ahead of the date, not after the move is already made
Anticipation builds
VEGA tracks peak signals and prepares the exit
Out before it resolves
Today the position closes before the announcement resolves
For sudden shocks — M&A announcements, disclosed breaches, surprise macro moves — the news is already out and this clock does not apply. VEGA handles those too, with a different exit logic.
How it works
Event → role → match → enter → exit.
Seven steps, in that order. At step two, VEGA researches which companies this event benefits and which it hurts — that is where direction is decided, and no later step overrides it. Everything that follows governs whether the setup is strong enough to act on, when to enter, and when to be out.
- 01
Start from the event
Before the open and through the session, VEGA reads the catalysts: company news and filings, the earnings calendar, scheduled macro releases, and sudden shocks. The event comes first and the companies come from the event — VEGA does not start with a watchlist and go hunting for a reason.
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Resolve the role
One event has winners and losers. An acquirer and a target move opposite ways on the same headline; an export restriction lifts domestic manufacturers and hurts the exporters. VEGA researches each company's position — analyst expectations for the print, recent results against those expectations, forward guidance, and who the event's direct beneficiaries and victims are — and assigns its role: benefited or hurt. That role decides call or put. Direction is settled by the research, not a score, and no later rule overrides it.
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Screen for tradability
Of the companies the event touched, which can actually be traded well? VEGA checks for genuine liquidity, a real options chain, and an expected move large enough to cover the cost of getting in and back out. This decides whether an idea is worth trading at all — never which way it should go.
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Match against the library
The live setup is compared against a library of resolved historical events, each one carried at prices from the real options chain rather than modelled after the fact. What matters is how closely the whole situation resembles one that already paid — not one indicator agreeing. A weak match produces nothing at all. A strong match also records when comparable situations peaked — that timing is what step seven uses to target the exit.
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Enter at the right moment
Catalyst strength, attention, and momentum determine the size of the position — never its direction. For an anticipated catalyst, VEGA is designed to enter during the building run-up — specifically targeting the intraday dip that forms as initial attention is digested, rather than chasing a move already in the air. Buying the dip keeps the cost of entry lower and leaves more of the anticipated move still ahead. Missing a window is acceptable; forcing an entry past it is not.
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Let the research decide the exit
For a scheduled catalyst — an earnings date, a policy decision, a macro release — there are two ways to be right: take the run-up and step aside before the number lands, or carry the position through it and take the move the number produces. Which is the better deal is not a fixed rule. It depends on what the research can actually establish about the event and on the conditions at the time. VEGA is designed to make that call trade by trade from the grounded facts rather than apply one blanket policy to every print. Where an event cannot be read with real confidence, it harvests the anticipation and leaves the binary alone — the implied volatility that priced the option collapses the moment the number is revealed, and a position nobody can read is a bet, not an edge. Sudden shocks are different: the news has already happened, so there is nothing left to step aside from.
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Exit at the peak
Getting out is treated as seriously as getting in. VEGA estimates where a position is likely to top out — scaling what its closest historical analogues did to today's conditions — and works to close there rather than ride a good position back down. Money left on the table is counted as a failure in its own right, not just a smaller win.
Catalyst strength, attention and momentum inform how much — never which way. Direction is set at step two from the event research — which companies benefit from this catalyst, which are hurt — and no rule downstream overrides it. A bearish research conclusion produces a put with exactly the same conviction a bullish one produces a call.
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The full cycle
VEGA accompanies you — open to close.
A one-time alert is a tip. What VEGA delivers is a complete trade lifecycle — from the moment it decides to open, through every material development, to the exit at peak. You never have to guess what to do next.
- 01 — Open
When VEGA decides, you hear first
You receive the ticker, the direction (CALL or PUT), the specific contract, the size — and the why: the catalyst behind the idea and the historical episode it matched. Without a stated reason, nothing goes out.
- 02 — Along the way
It keeps watching after you are in
While a position is open, VEGA keeps watching it. You hear when the move is approaching where comparable situations have run out of steam, when the conditions behind the idea are holding or turning, and when your protective levels come into play.
- 03 — Adverse — exit now
If conditions turn against you, you hear immediately
A regime flip. Adverse news. VEGA fires an urgent exit alert when something material goes against the position. The intent is to get you out before the giveback, not after. This alert does not wait for your next check-in.
- 04 — Close
Exit at the peak — then it is done
When the exit logic determines the move has reached its target, you hear to close. The aim is the full peak — not roughly there, at it. After you are out, the position cycle resets and the library learns from the outcome.
Structural edge
Trade the anticipation.
Trade the anticipation.
Delete the announcement.
Most options positions are lost to IV crush in the minutes after an announcement — not because the thesis was wrong, but because the position was still open when the catalyst resolved. VEGA is designed so this cannot happen on scheduled events.
Join the waitlistThe unobservable half
How a scheduled event actually resolves is unknowable before it prints. And the IV priced into the option collapses the moment it does — a position that was right on direction can still lose money in the minutes after the announcement.
The observable half
How the market anticipates a scheduled event is directly readable — in the news flow, the analyst sentiment, the IV skew, and how the term structure bends toward the date. This is what VEGA trades.
The result
VEGA aims to be positioned into the run-up and out before the announcement prints. The binary outcome is not predicted — it is deleted from the trade. For shock events where the news has already broken, the standard peak-capture ladder governs — there is no announcement to step ahead of, and no clock running.
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Coverage
Not every move that pays starts with your ticker in the story.
A supplier moves because its largest customer beat. A whole sector re-rates off one company’s guidance. A policy change ripples two steps out to a name the newswire never mentioned. These moves are real, and a system that only reads headlines misses every one of them.
So VEGA runs a second, narrower lane alongside the main one. The event-driven lane above is primary and does most of the work. This one exists to make sure a move that happened for a good reason can still be reached — even when no headline said so.
A second way in — with a higher bar, not a lower one
When no event names a company directly, it can still be considered — but only if it makes the case on its own. It has to show a genuine catalyst, real momentum and real attention, all three at once and all three measured. In the first lane the event supplies the reason; here the company has to supply it itself. That is why the requirement is stricter, not looser.
The same machinery, all the way through
An idea that arrives this way is not put on an easier path. It goes through the identical matching, sizing, timing and exit process as an event-driven one. If it does not recognise strongly against the library, it does not become a recommendation — exactly like anything else.
Traced back to the event wherever possible
Where a company can be connected to a known event — as a supplier, a customer, a direct peer — it inherits that event's role, and the idea becomes an event-driven one the newsfeed simply under-reported. That is the preferred outcome. A reason beats a signature every time.
The broad market universe is a safety net for reach, not a list to be scanned indiscriminately. Its only job is to make sure a company that moved for a second-order reason is able to get in front of the same tests as everything else — and it has to clear a higher bar to do it.
What you receive
One decision, fully specified.
A recommendation is not a ticker and a hunch. It is a complete, self-contained decision — the contract, the boundaries you would work inside, and the reasoning that produced it. If you disagree with the reasoning, you have everything you need to say no.
While a position is open, VEGA keeps watching it and tells you when something material changes — the move approaching where similar moves have historically exhausted, or the conditions turning against the original thesis.
Anatomy of a recommendation
- Direction and thesis
- Call or put, and the one-sentence reason it is that way round.
- Contract
- The specific strike and expiry, chosen for liquidity as well as exposure.
- Entry range
- The premium band inside which the idea still makes sense to open.
- Exit plan
- Where the position is expected to be worth taking off, monitored while it is open.
- Risk limit
- The level at which the idea is considered wrong, set before you enter.
- The why
- The catalyst, and the historical episode the live setup matched.
VEGA Alert — CALL
Illustrative only - Direction
- CALL — identified as beneficiary of acquisition announcement
- Contract
- [TICKER] $[STRIKE] call · [N] DTE
- Entry range
- $[X.XX] – $[X.XX] — outside this band the idea no longer makes sense
- Exit plan
- Peak estimate based on comparable events; VEGA monitors and sends the close signal
- Risk limit
- Full premium at risk — defined before entry
- Why
- [Company] named primary beneficiary in [acquisition announcement]. Pattern matched against comparable deal events in the library where the anticipation run preceded the close date.
Illustrative format only — no real ticker, strike, price or trade. The card above shows what a recommendation contains; it is not a recommendation, and it is not a record of any trade.
Discipline
Silence is a position.
The hardest part of a system like this is not finding ideas. It is refusing the ones that are merely plausible. VEGA is built to be conservative by construction rather than by instruction — when a signal is absent or uncertain, it produces nothing, not a guess.
Zero is a valid answer
On a day with no strong analogue, nothing arrives. VEGA is built so that producing no recommendation is a normal, correct outcome rather than a failure — a quiet inbox is the system declining to spend your capital.
Guardrails fail closed
When a required input is missing, stale or unreliable, VEGA does not substitute a plausible value and continue. The candidate is withdrawn. A setup is only allowed forward when every check has genuinely passed.
Filters remove, they never choose
VEGA's safety checks exist to remove the obviously dead — directionless markets, unresolvable conditions, contracts too thin to enter or exit fairly, volatility priced richer than the move it is pricing. They never pick a winner and never overrule a direction. The market's mood is context for the match, not a rule about which way to trade.
Both directions, equally
Puts are not a hedge bolted onto a bullish product. A disappointing quarter, a hawkish surprise or a disclosed breach is a bearish setup, and VEGA treats it with exactly the same machinery it uses for a bullish one.
The contract is the scorecard
A position is judged on what the option itself did, at prices you could genuinely have traded — bought at the offer, sold at the bid. Not on where the share price went. A stock can climb while the call on it still loses money to time decay and falling volatility, and VEGA is built to record that honestly as the loss it is.
Fit
It is not for everyone, and that is deliberate.
We would rather you decide early that VEGA is the wrong tool than discover it after subscribing. Read both columns.
A good fit if
- You already trade options and want a disciplined second opinion rather than a firehose of alerts.
- Your working day makes screen-watching impossible, and you can act on a decision in a few minutes.
- You want to know why an idea exists, not just what the ticker is.
- You are comfortable placing and managing your own orders in your own brokerage account.
Not a fit if
- You are looking for a guaranteed return, or for someone to trade the account for you.
- You want constant activity — many days produce nothing at all.
- You are new to options and have not yet traded them with money you can afford to lose.
- You need same-day expiry scalps; VEGA works on multi-day positions, not intraday scalping.
Straight answers
What you will not find on this page.
This category is full of screenshots and round numbers. Here is the part of the page that usually gets left out.
No performance record is published here
VEGA is in private validation. We are not publishing a win rate, a return figure or an equity curve on this page — and you should be sceptical of any options product that leads with one. Results will be discussed with early-access participants directly, in context, with their limitations stated.
No guarantees, expressed or implied
Nothing here promises a profit or protects against a loss. Options can and do expire worthless. A well-reasoned position is still a position that can lose the entire premium paid for it.
You stay in control
VEGA is an analytics tool. It has no access to your brokerage account, places no orders, and holds no custody of your money. Every decision, and every order, is yours.
We describe the method, not the parameters
The architecture behind VEGA is proprietary to TechSquad Consultants LLC and is described here in plain terms deliberately. We would rather explain honestly how it reasons than publish specifics we are not prepared to stand behind.
Who builds it
Built by TechSquad Consultants LLC.
TechSquad Consultants is an enterprise security and data engineering practice. Our day work is identity and access management for large organisations — environments where a single unchecked assumption is a real incident, and where systems are expected to fail safely rather than confidently.
VEGA applies the same engineering posture: real data or none, guards that fail closed, and a stated reason behind every output. The architecture is proprietary to TechSquad Consultants LLC. When you contact support, you reach the team that built it — not a third-party operator reading from a script.
Enterprise security engineering Proprietary architecture Built and operated in-house
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Questions
Before you get in touch.
Does VEGA place trades for me?
No. VEGA never connects to your brokerage account. It delivers an analysis; you decide whether to act on it and place any order yourself.
How does an alert actually reach me?
By email. Each one arrives with the direction and the one-sentence reason it is that way round, the specific contract, the entry range, the exit plan, and the level at which the idea is considered wrong. Urgent exits are sent the moment conditions turn — they do not wait for a scheduled send. The only thing we need from you is an email address.
What does it cost, and what do I need to get started?
Pricing is not set yet. VEGA is in private validation, and putting a price on it before it has demonstrated its value would be asking you to pay for a promise. Early-access members lock a founding rate before pricing opens publicly, and joining the waitlist costs nothing and commits you to nothing. To act on an alert you need a brokerage account with options approval — the standard retail tier, which most applicants get within a business day — and about ten minutes before the open. There is nothing to install.
Does VEGA keep watching after I open the position?
Yes, and that is most of the value. Once a position is open VEGA keeps watching it through each session — tracking the move against where comparable situations topped out, watching for a change in the conditions behind the idea, and sending an urgent exit alert if something turns against it. You do not need to set separate alerts to know when to act.
How much time does it take?
It is built for people who cannot watch the market. Ideas arrive ahead of the session with everything needed to make a decision, and updates on an open position arrive as they happen rather than on a schedule.
What does VEGA actually trade?
Listed equity and ETF options only, calls and puts, typically two to six weeks to expiry. It is not a day-trading product and does not deal in same-day expiries. VEGA watches an open position through the session, but it does so to manage a multi-day trade — not to scalp one.
Does VEGA only look at companies that are in the news?
Most ideas do start from an event and the companies that event names. But real moves also happen a step removed — a supplier reacting to its largest customer's results, a whole sector re-rating off one report. VEGA can consider those too, with a deliberately higher bar: when no event names the company, it has to show a real catalyst, real momentum and real attention before it is looked at.
What happens on a quiet day?
Nothing arrives. That is the intended behaviour, not an outage. VEGA is designed to prefer no recommendation over a weak one.
Is this financial advice?
No. TechSquad Consultants LLC is not a registered investment adviser or a broker-dealer, and nothing VEGA produces is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. It is research output for your own independent decision-making.
Can I get access now?
VEGA is in a limited early-access phase while it is validated. Tell us how you trade and we will give you a straight, honest answer on whether it is a sensible fit — and exactly where the product stands today. No pitch, no pressure.
Talk to us about early access
VEGA is in a limited validation phase. Tell us how you trade and we will give you a straight answer on whether it is a sensible fit — and where the product genuinely stands today.
No obligation. We will not send you a performance sheet, because we are not publishing one.
Request early accessImportant risk disclosure
VEGA (Volatility-Edge Generative Alpha) is an analytics and research product of TechSquad Consultants LLC. It is not investment advice. TechSquad Consultants LLC is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer or commodity trading adviser, and nothing produced by VEGA or presented on this page is a recommendation, solicitation or offer to buy or sell any security or derivative.
Options trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. You may lose the entire premium paid for a position, and certain options strategies carry the risk of losses exceeding the amount initially invested. Before trading options you should read the standardised options risk disclosure document, Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options, published by The Options Clearing Corporation.
No performance record, hypothetical or actual, is presented on this page. Past performance does not indicate or guarantee future results, and any analysis VEGA produces may be incorrect. You are solely responsible for your own investment decisions and for every order you place in your own brokerage account. Consider your objectives, experience and risk tolerance, and consult a licensed professional where appropriate.