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Editor’s Note: Last week, Marc Chaikin and I went live to reveal the product of our months-long collaboration – a massive upgrade to my Unusual Options Activity Scanner we’re calling the Convergence Trigger.

It all started simple enough. Over the last several months, Marc and I started comparing notes. And here’s what we discovered: We’ve both spent our entire careers tracking the same thing—the smart money—just from completely different angles.

My work identifies where big, high-conviction positioning is showing up. Marc’s Money Flow confirms where institutional capital is actually flowing in the underlying stocks.

One signal measures conviction. The other confirms direction. Together, they form something neither of us had alone—a super signal that tips us off to the biggest directional bets in the options market before the crowd catches on.