The OLIMP panel is the control block in the top-left corner of the chart. Every level of the indicator is switched on and configured through it. Below is the panel from top to bottom.
Header
- Access status: plan and days remaining. Visible on every tab.
- Title with the version number. A click collapses the panel into one line and expands it again, handy when you need a clean chart. The version number helps when contacting support.
- RU / EN: language of the panel, chart labels and tooltips.
- "Contract history": how levels are shown over time. Off: only levels from the latest CME report. On: levels are drawn as steps across all accumulated reports, so you can see how Max Pain, walls and balances moved day by day. A level that stays put for weeks is a stable position; a level that crawls after price means positions are being rolled.
- "Info panel": shows or hides the summary in the top-right corner of the chart.
- Profiles: a row of five buttons under "Info panel". A profile is a set of display settings: a click switches to it, a double click renames it. Any change is saved at once to the active profile. On first install the indicator creates the set "My", "Signals", "Intraday", "Options", "OI prof"; "Signals" shows notifications only.
Five tabs
- Contract: everything for the selected option series: strikes, balances, walls, volatility, labels.
- FP: forward point, aligning CME levels with your broker's price.
- MZ: margin zones.
- Other: expirations, trading sessions, CME holidays, daily pivots, bank levels.
- License: key, status, data-service state, useful links.
The "Contract" tab
At the top is a common block:
- "CONTRACT" switch: removes all option levels in one click without resetting settings.
- Monthly / weekly: series type. Monthly contracts carry the largest open interest and give structure for weeks ahead. Weekly ones are closer in time and affect price more on their expiration day; a Mon–Fri row appears for them.
- Series navigator: arrows flip through expirations, with the series label and days to expiration in the middle. You can also flip to the series that has just expired.
Below are five sub-tabs:
- Filter: which strikes to show: by open interest, inflow and outflow, delta; moving the label to the breakeven point.
- Balance: centers of gravity of positions (COI, Capital, Equilibrium, VPOC), walls and the open-interest profile.
- Volat.: Gamma-Flip, the ±1σ/±2σ corridor, daily range, term structure and volatility smile.
- Text: which fields to print next to strikes, and font scale.
- More: Max Pain, the ATM strike, market range, total OI & volume.
The "Balance" and "Volat." sub-tabs have a "more" button that opens a reference window right on the chart.
Info panel
A summary for the selected series in the top-right corner. Rows from top to bottom:
- Report / Spot: the CME report date and the futures price on that date. The first thing to check: what date the data is for.
- Contract: the series and days to expiration.
- ATM IV · PCR: at-the-money volatility and the put/call ratio.
- IV Rank · Term: where current volatility sits in its yearly range, and the shape of the term structure.
- IV/RV: volatility the market expects versus realized.
- Skew 25Δ: which options are pricier, puts or calls.
- Daily: the expected one-day move in percent and in price.
- Max Pain, Gamma → flip, Vanna · Charm: the Max Pain level, the gamma regime and distance to Gamma-Flip, signs of second-order measures.
- From price: distance in percent to Max Pain and to the nearest wall.
- COI · Cap · Equil · VPOC: values of the four balances.
- VERDICT: an overall bias in five grades, from "strong up" to "strong down".
What the verdict is. The row condenses the positioning picture into one verdict, taking into account option levels, balances, walls, volatility and market regime. Clicking the row shows which factors are currently "for" and which "against". It is end-of-day context, not a trade signal.
Notification mode and price scale
- Notification mode is a button at the bottom of the panel (since version 3.2.02). It expands the switches of three events ("Price·OI", "Touch", "Max Pain") and "Alert sound". An enabled event draws ▲/▼ arrows for past occurrences and shows a banner with a signal when a new one happens. The "Notifications only" switch (since version 3.2.04) keeps just arrows and alerts on the chart, and the whole notification mode is part of the profiles. See Notification mode: arrows and alerts.
- Price scale is now chosen automatically (since version 3.2.03). If the broker quotes an instrument in other units than the exchange (for example copper in dollars per tonne rather than per pound), the levels fit the chart without manual setup. A manually set "Price scale" always takes priority. If the units are unusual, a hint with the recommended value appears at the bottom of the chart.
Handy details
- Hover over any line, label or zone for a tooltip with values.
- Calls and resistance are red; puts and support are green.
- The instrument is detected automatically from the chart symbol. Settings are remembered separately for each instrument.
- If there are no levels, open the "License" tab and check the "Link" row: the data service must be connected. See No data on the chart.
Where to start with settings is covered in Configuring level display. You can try the panel without installing anything in the indicator simulator.