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John Carter’s New AI Trading Dashboard designed for the S&P 500.
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- From John Carter, creator of the Squeeze…
Discover the AI-Assisted SPX Day-Trading Dashboard That Reads the Market Every 5 Minutes
See the SPX environment, the levels that matter, and the trades that fit using hidden data most retail traders never see.
What’s Included:
Get exclusive automated AI-powered SPX trade ideas that are not available in any charting program.
Access calendar spread trade ideas and additional market intelligence, refreshed hourly.
Get multiple vertical spread trade ideas, and iron condors updated every 5 minutes.
Break down 17 quantitative market inputs to get a deeper understanding of current SPX conditions.
Access key data points you won’t typically find on a standard chart, including:
- Point of Control
- Quant Pivots
- VWAP overlay
See the market data that doesn’t appear on a standard SPX chart, including:
- Options dealer positioning and exposure
- Market structure and internals
- Options flow
- Gamma exposure
- Real-time commentary and visualizations
Join John Carter for a 4-hour live class covering SPX spread trading.
- 12:00 - 4:00 PM CT
Trade alongside John Carter during two 3-hour live trading sessions and see how he applies SPX Advantage in real market conditions.
Tuesday, September 22nd
- 8:20–10:30 AM CT
- 2:00–3:00 PM CT
Thursday, September 24th
- 8:20–10:30 AM CT
- 2:00–3:00 PM CT
Hi, John Carter here.
I’ve spent more than 30 years trading, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about trading SPX, it’s this: A lot more is happening underneath the chart than you know.
You can stare at six screens all day and have every indicator known to man, but somehow still be left asking…
“Okay… so what do I actually do here?”
That’s the problem I set out to solve with the SPX Advantage.
It’s an AI-assisted day-trading dashboard that pulls together the information I actually care about when trading SPX, and refreshes it throughout the session.
Instead of trying to piece everything together yourself, you get a clear read on the market every five minutes.
And it answers three questions…
What's the environment right now?
Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral
Which SPX levels actually matter?
Not just the levels your standard chart shows you
What trade fits these conditions?
Call debit spread, Iron Condor, Calendar
If the best trade is “no trade”, it will tell you that, too.
VIX spiking, FOMC morning, ugly overnight gap? The system grades the tape before it suggests anything. And when the conditions aren’t there, it can tell you to WAIT.
That’s a very different approach from sitting in front of a screen at 10:15 AM, feeling like you need to make something happen.
The discipline is built into the system and not left entirely up to you.
Already an MTT or Squeeze Intel Member?
First, thank you for being a valued member at Simpler Trading. As an MTT and/or Squeeze Intel member, you can add SPX Advantage to your trading toolkit with an exclusive $500 member discount.
SPX Advantage does not replace the Squeeze Intel. Squeeze Intel is a daily swing scan. SPX Advantage is a five minute intraday system. Both use the same data backbone but serve different trading styles, and many traders use both.
Two Dashboards, One Goal
Know What the SPX is Giving You Right Now
The SPX Advantage is built around two tabs designed for different parts of the trading day.
SPX Calendars
The Calendar dashboard updates hourly and takes 16 different factors and rolls the entire market environment into one clear verdict:
Then it highlights the preferred calendar spread for those conditions, along with alternate setups and the full factor breakdown.
So you can take the recommendation at face value or dig into the data and see exactly why the system reached that conclusion.
And there’s “Pug”, the AI behind the dashboard.
For every scan, “Pug” generates a plain-English market narrative explaining why the market is reading the way it is.
It’s not freehand commentary. The narrative comes from the same data that produced the score.
SPX Intraday
This is where the Advantage becomes a real-time day-trading tool. It updates every 5 minutes from 8:30 AM–3:00 PM CT.
So instead of asking yourself, “Which trade should I take?”
You can start with: “Which trades actually fit what the market is doing right now?”
And sometimes none of them do. That’s by design.
- Intraday market direction
- Key SPX price levels
- A graded menu of potential spread trades
- Every candidate scored from 0–100
- PRIME / STRONG / FAIR / LOW FIT tiers
Your AI-Powered “Trader Brain”
SPX Advantage watches the forces that actually move the SPX: dealer gamma, options flow, and volatility term structure, and rereads them every 5 minutes. Most days, it hands you a trade idea. On others, it hands you a clear wait signal instead.
Get The NEW SPX Advantage
SPX Advantage is an AI-assisted day trading dashboard built specifically for the S&P 500.
It’s finally possible to combine complex market data, including options flow, gamma positioning, market internals, historical market behavior, and more. Now traders can effortlessly track the factors that really move the SPX without paying for multiple proprietary data sources.
SPX Advantage distills all this "invisible data” to answer three critical questions:
What is the current market environment? Bullish, bearish, or neutral?
Which SPX levels and price ranges matter right now?
What calendar or vertical spread ideas may fit those conditions?
SPX Calendars
SPX Advantage includes two primary dashboards: SPX Calendars and SPX Verticals; each designed to help traders identify high probability SPX spread opportunities.
The SPX Calendars dashboard evaluates the current market environment and provides a clear scorecard at the top, helping traders quickly understand what the data is saying without having to interpret multiple underlying metrics themselves.
Think of it as a data-driven service for identifying potential SPX calendar trade ideas.
Key Features Include:
- Market Environment Scorecard: A simplified assessment of current market conditions.
- Preferred Calendar Setup: Highlights a potential calendar spread idea based on the current data.
- Alternate Calendar Setups: Provides additional possibilities to consider.
- Supporting Market Data: Gives traders access to the underlying information used to develop the market read.
- AI-Generated Market Narrative: Helps translate the current market data into a plain-English explanation of what may be happening in the SPX.
- SPX Scanner: Provides additional market information to help identify potential opportunities.
SPX Intraday
SPX Intraday is designed to exploit intraday market direction, key price levels, potential credit spreads, debit spreads, and Iron Condor opportunities. In one word, it classifies the current SPX environment as bullish, bearish, or neutral.
Key Features Include:
- Potential Vertical Spread Ideas: Identifies potential credit and debit spread opportunities based on current conditions.
- Suggested Option Legs: Provides potential long and short option legs when a setup is identified.
- Intraday SPX Chart: Highlights key levels that may be difficult to identify or access through a standard SPX chart.
- Detailed Supporting Data: Gives more advanced traders access to the underlying market information behind the dashboard's analysis.
- Options Flow & Dealer Positioning: Provides insight into options activity and dealer positioning that may influence SPX price action.
- AI-Generated Commentary: Planned AI-generated commentary designed to help explain the current SPX market, read similarly to the SPX Calendars dashboard.
John Carter’s New SPX Spreads Class
Learn John’s Proven SPX Spread Trading Strategies
Join John Carter for an interactive 4-hour deep dive into SPX spread trading, where he’ll break down exactly how he interprets, adjusts, and applies the SPX Advantage tool using real-time market data.
Saturday, September 19th
- 12:00 - 4:00 PM CT
2 Days of SPX Advantage Powered Live Trading
Watch John’s NEW SPX “Trader Brain” in Action
This is two full days of trading alongside John Carter live, in real market conditions, with SPX Advantage running the entire time. You’ll see exactly how he turns dealer gamma, options flow, and market internals into real trade decisions, in the moment they happen.
Tuesday, September 22nd
- 8:20–10:30 AM CT
- 2:00–3:00 PM CT
Thursday, September 24th
- 8:20–10:30 AM CT
- 2:00–3:00 PM CT
The Chart Itself Shows You Levels Your Retail Platform Can't
One of the biggest advantages isn't just what the system tells you, but also what it puts directly on your SPX chart.
195-Minute Quant Pivots
John’s ST_QuantPivots study uses the 195-minute timeframe to project statistical expected-range levels based on 30 sessions of actual market behavior.
You get H1, H2, L1 and L2 levels based on expected movement (not Fibonacci).
And the levels have been verified tick-for-tick against ThinkorSwim.
Point of Control + Value Area
SPX itself doesn’t print volume, so how do you get a volume profile on the index?
The Advantage derives the profile from SPY and projects those levels onto SPX.
In other words, you’re seeing levels on SPX that SPX itself technically can’t produce.
GEX Magnets + Pin-Risk Zones
The dashboard also incorporates live dealer positioning to identify GEX magnets and areas where pin risk can matter.
These are the kinds of forces underneath the market that don’t show up on a standard price chart, and the SPX Advantage brings them into the decision.
And We're Keeping Score…
One thing I didn’t want to build was a system that only shows you the trades that worked.
So every snapshot’s trade menu gets banked to a permanent trade tape: Entries, Exits, Lifecycle.
That means the track record belongs to the system, not to a highlight reel.
And the exit rules weren’t pulled out of thin air. They came from a 60-session, 23,000-trade simulation study.
That’s the kind of testing I wanted behind the system before putting it in front of traders.
What you actually get with SPX Advantage
You don't need to manually pull together options flow, dealer positioning, volatility data and market internals. The dashboard does the heavy lifting.
With your membership, you get…
An hourly market-environment scorecard using 16 factors to grade conditions from GREAT to AVOID, with the preferred calendar spread, alternate setups, and the complete factor breakdown.
A real-time SPX day-trading dashboard updating every five minutes during the session with market direction, key levels, spread candidates, scores, and PRIME/STRONG/FAIR/LOW FIT tiers.
Plain-English explanations generated from the same data powering each scan, so you can understand why the system sees the market the way it does.
195-minute Quant Pivots, Point of Control, Value Area, GEX magnets, and pin-risk zones displayed directly on your SPX chart.
Potential call debit spreads, put credit spreads, iron condors, calendars, and other setups evaluated against current market conditions.
Every snapshot’s trade menu is recorded, including entries, exits, and trade lifecycle, so you can evaluate the system’s performance over time.
Exit logic developed from a 60-session, 23,000-trade simulation study.
Your SPX Advantage Yearly membership: $4997
Get full access to the dashboard and start seeing what the SPX market is actually giving you in real time.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s more than a traditional alert service. The dashboard continuously evaluates the SPX environment, key levels, and potential spread trades, then grades those opportunities based on current conditions. It can also tell you when conditions aren’t favorable and to wait.
No. The system provides the market analysis, levels, trade candidates, and grading. You decide whether to take a trade and place it through your own broker.
SPX Intraday updates every five minutes from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM CT. SPX Calendars updates hourly.
Depending on market conditions, the system can evaluate call debit spreads, put credit spreads, iron condors, calendars, and other spread structures. If the conditions don’t support a trade, it can tell you to wait.
No. The dashboard is designed to turn that data into a clear market read and graded trade opportunities. Pug also provides a plain-English narrative explaining the reasoning behind each scan.
Each candidate trade is scored based on how well it fits the current market conditions. SPX Intraday also categorizes candidates into PRIME, STRONG, FAIR, or LOW FIT tiers.
The chart incorporates 195-minute Quant Pivots, SPX Point of Control and Value Area derived from SPY, plus GEX magnets and pin-risk zones from live dealer positioning.
Yes. The trade menu from each snapshot is banked to a permanent trade tape, including entries, exits, and lifecycle. This gives you a way to evaluate the system beyond selected winning example
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