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How can you determine if a trade was 'bought' or 'sold'?

Options Flow

Unfortunately there is nothing that explicitly states whether a contract in the flow feed was the result of a buy or sell order.

We generally try to use the bid/ask and fill prices of the trades to help us determine a buy or sell but can't do so with total certainty. 

You may be able to use the options flow feed and other supporting information to help you formulate a thesis. An in-depth video on this process can be found our Youtube channel.