A deeply positive-gamma tape is the mirror image of a trend day: dealer hedging dampens and mean-reverts price, pinning it in a range and drawing it back toward the center. The playbook is to trade with that reversion, and to resist the urge to hunt for a breakout that won't come.

The core plays

Fade the edges and buy the dips: sell rejections at the call wall, buy holds at the put wall, fade stretches back to gravity, and run the VWAP rotation both ways. Every one of these is the same idea: bet on reversion, because the mechanical flow is doing the same.

The rules that keep it profitable

Distrust breakouts — in deep positive gamma they mostly fail, so fade the fakes rather than chase them. Keep targets modest — range-day moves are small, so take profit into the middle and don't overstay into chop and theta. Keep size reasonable — the edge is frequency and consistency, not one big winner.

In deep positive gamma, the boring trade is the right trade: fade the edges, take the middle, repeat. Reaching for a trend is how you give it back.

The one thing to watch

Positive-gamma reversion works until the regime changes. Watch for a flip toward negative gamma or the trend-day checklist lighting up — the moment an edge breaks and holds, the fade machine is off and you must stop fading. Deep positive gamma is a fade regime; when it stops being one, so should you. NoVo's live regime read tells you when the mean-revert environment is intact and when it's ending.