The gamma flip is the boundary between two markets: dampened above, amplified below. So crossing it isn't a level break — it's a regime change you can trade directly.
The reclaim: negative to positive
When price reclaims the flip from below and holds, the tape shifts from trending/amplifying toward pinning/mean-reverting. The playbook flips with it: stop chasing momentum and start buying dips and fading extremes, because dealer hedging is now leaning against moves. Entry: a confirmed, held reclaim (not a one-bar poke). Target: back toward gravity or the call wall. Stop: loss of the flip again.
The loss: positive to negative
When price loses the flip and holds below, the reverse: reversion setups become traps, and you switch to respecting trend and trading momentum (how to trade negative gamma). A pin that had been holding is now likely to break and run.
Trade the cross, not just the touch. A held flip cross is the market handing you a new set of rules — use them.
The one requirement: confirmation
The flip is a probabilistic level, not a hard line, so a quick wick through it isn't a regime change. Wait for a held cross — price accepting the new side — before flipping your playbook. Fading the first poke of the flip, in either direction, is how traders get whipsawed at the exact turn. NoVo recomputes the flip live, so you can see when price has genuinely crossed rather than just tagged it.
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