Check which options orders came in on your tickers today, how Benzinga labeled each one, and how the shares moved afterward. With the Firecrawl connector, Claude can track unusual options activity in Firecrawl Alexandria, which carries the orders Benzinga flags as out of the ordinary.
Best for
- Reviewing unusual options activity today on a single name or a watchlist before trading it.
- Scanning an entire session for the biggest orders and sweeps, organized by ticker.
- Comparing options flow with the headlines and price moves that came after.
Connector and data providers
Connector: the Firecrawl connector. Firecrawl Alexandria becomes reachable from Claude through it, and every provider call is paid from the credits of the team you connected.
Data providers in Firecrawl Alexandria
| Provider | Tool | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Benzinga | Unusual options activity | Orders Benzinga flagged, searchable by ticker and date, showing strike, expiration, option type, whether it was a sweep, the sentiment label and contract volume for each. |
| Benzinga | Why Is It Moving | Brief explanations of a price move, handy for seeing how the stock behaved once an order went through. |
| Benzinga | News search | Headlines tagged to a ticker, which can reveal the catalyst traders were betting on. |
Explore Firecrawl Alexandria data providers across categories
Starter prompt
Put your own tickers in and send it:
Use Firecrawl to pull Benzinga's unusual options activity from Firecrawl
Alexandria for NVDA, AMD and TSLA during today's session. Tell me what the
tool costs before running it.
Give me a brief rundown:
- For each ticker, how many orders were flagged and whether Benzinga's
sentiment tilted bullish, bearish or mixed.
- No more than five standout orders, each with time, call or put, strike,
expiry, sweep or trade, sentiment and volume.
- Any contract hit by more than one sweep.
Sentiment is Benzinga's read on the order and says nothing certain about
the trader. No buy or sell recommendations.Before you start
- Connect Firecrawl to Claude. From the Firecrawl connector listing, press Connect, then log in on the Firecrawl page that appears (or register there at no cost), select your team and grant access. You don't handle any API keys. Firecrawl in Claude covers setup in more depth.
- Enable it in each conversation. Go to +, then Connectors, and turn on Firecrawl.
- Get provider terms accepted. Certain Firecrawl Alexandria providers require an organization-level agreement to their terms, and a team admin signs off on those within the Firecrawl dashboard.
Limitations of using Claude for unusual options activity
Reading options flow starts with having the orders in front of you, and a fresh Claude chat has none. Five problems follow from that.
- There's no order data to work from. Every Claude model is trained only up to a cutoff, and Anthropic says the models may be unaware of what happened since (Anthropic). Anthropic also acknowledges that Claude can sometimes produce responses that are wrong or misleading (Anthropic). Put the two together and a question about today's heavy call buying may get an answer naming strikes nobody traded.
- Trades happen on many exchanges. US options are listed across a number of venues, and OPRA merges their quotes and last-sale reports into a single feed. A write-up about one large trade shows a sliver of that feed and rarely explains what it omits.
- Sweeps don't reveal who or which way. In a sweep, a big order is chopped into smaller fills executed rapidly on several exchanges, and the trader's identity and the buy or sell side stay hidden (SoFi). Any directional read is a guess from where the fills happened.
- Volume and open interest measure different things. Volume tallies contracts that changed hands in a session; open interest tallies contracts still outstanding (Options Industry Council). If volume tops open interest a new position may have opened, and the next session's open interest settles it (E*TRADE). Mixing up the two makes one print look more meaningful than it is.
- A single wrong digit matters. A 2024 review of ChatGPT's use in finance found it slipping on numerical details, and any assistant working from memory can make the same kind of error. In options that error is costly, because a mistyped strike or expiration identifies a completely different contract.
How it works
Four parts let Claude track options flow:
- Firecrawl Alexandria: the data catalog Firecrawl operates for AI agents, with 100+ official providers paid under agreement and Firecrawl-run indexes spanning the public web, academic research, developer resources and government publications. Firecrawl tested 845 tasks with model and prompts unchanged and a blind AI judge, and agents with access to Firecrawl Alexandria were scored 21% better on answer quality than those working only with built-in web tools.
- The order records: Benzinga's unusual options activity tool takes as many as 50 tickers plus one date or a range of dates, and sends back each flagged order as a structured record.
- Cost check before running: Claude finds the tool and reviews what it needs and what it charges before making the call.
- Read-only: Claude sees Benzinga's data through your Firecrawl connection and has nothing linking it to a brokerage, so no order can be placed.
Tracking unusual options activity in Claude with and without Firecrawl Alexandria
| Without a data provider | Using Firecrawl Alexandria | |
|---|---|---|
| Order source | Posts and stories written about a trade afterward | Benzinga's flagged order records, retrieved on demand |
| Contract specifics | Often left out or paraphrased loosely | Each record lists the option symbol, strike, expiration and call or put |
| Kind of order | Depends on the writer's wording | Labeled sweep or trade, with how many trades made it up |
| Direction | Set by how the story frames it | A bullish, bearish or neutral sentiment label from Benzinga for you to weigh |
| Who's behind the data | Vendor data and social chatter blur together | Benzinga, which licenses data to Firecrawl Alexandria as one of its 100+ official providers across finance, travel, government, companies and beyond. Browse the catalog |
| Breadth | Mostly heavily covered names | As many as 50 tickers at once, or every flagged order for a given date |
| Ongoing watch | Ask again next session | Claude can't run on a schedule, but in Firecrawl you can set a Firecrawl Monitor to rerun a ticker's news search at your interval and send an alert by email or Slack whenever something new turns up |
Build your own options flow workflow
Match the prompt to how you trade. Short-term traders usually care about the current session, the boldest orders and whatever event is coming up:
With Firecrawl, get today's unusual options activity for SPY, QQQ and my
watchlist (NVDA, META, AMZN). Only include sweeps on contracts expiring in
the next 30 days. Group by ticker, largest five by volume first, and then
check Benzinga news on each ticker for anything published today. Show me
the price of each tool first.Longer-horizon investors tend to care about positioning that keeps coming back over a week:
Use Firecrawl to get unusual options activity on AAPL, MSFT and GOOGL for
the past five trading days. For every ticker, report the count of flagged
orders, how sentiment split between bullish and bearish, and expiry months
that showed up more than once, in a short paragraph each.Spelling out the tickers, the time span, which orders to keep and the layout of the reply is what keeps Claude's answer focused.
Take it further
Connect an order to the next day's move
Use Firecrawl to find unusual options activity in TSLA from last Friday,
then get Benzinga's Why Is It Moving notes on TSLA for the following
trading day.Scan the whole market
With Firecrawl, list all of yesterday's unusual options activity grouped by
ticker, and highlight the names carrying the most bearish orders.Find bets that repeat
Use Firecrawl to get five trading days of unusual options activity for AMD,
AVGO and TSM, and point out contracts expiring this month that drew more
than one sweep.Review tools before paying
With Firecrawl, find which Firecrawl Alexandria tools carry options flow or
unusual options activity data, and show each one's per-call price.What it costs
Discovery and price checks don't touch your credits. Credits leave your connected team's Firecrawl balance only when Claude runs a provider, and the Firecrawl pricing page lists how many each plan includes.
| Benzinga tool | Gives you | Credits per call |
|---|---|---|
| Unusual options activity | Flagged orders on the symbols and dates requested | 45 |
| Why Is It Moving | Short reasons a share price moved | 45 |
| News search | Headlines filed under a symbol or theme | 30 |
Because Claude checks the price before each call, you can ask it to hold off until you say go.
[ Options flow in Claude ]
Connect Firecrawl and ask Claude which options orders landed on your watchlist today. Finding the tool is free.
Related use cases
- How to track analyst upgrades and downgrades in Claude: see whether a large call order came right after an upgrade or a higher price target.
- How to get real-time stock news in Claude: headlines that might explain what traders were positioning for.
- Earnings dates via Fiscal.ai: check if an order's expiry falls just after a company reports, using the Fiscal.ai earnings calendar that Firecrawl Alexandria also offers.
Coverage limits
- US-listed underlyings. Orders are reported on US-listed stocks and ETFs, and index funds like SPY and QQQ appear frequently.
- Flagged orders only. You get the subset of the options tape that Benzinga marks as unusual, and rows from our direct API calls on Oct 9, 2026 listed how many contracts traded but left out premium and fill price.
- No investment advice. The orders are reported as Benzinga logged them, and trading decisions remain yours.