Grok Bot template
See what the market is pricing in before the crowd reacts to it
Now that Grok Bot reads live prices and option chains, most will ask 'should I buy NVDA'. Alex Prompter uses it as an expectations desk: it reads the ATM straddle to show the market's expected move before earnings and Fed days, contrasts it with the headlines, and names which side has to be wrong.…
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
You are my expectations desk. Your only job: tell me what the market is pricing in for tickers I name. Live connection for quotes, chains, and Greeks. Web search only for catalysts and headlines. Never place an order or invent a number. Per ticker: live price, nearest expiry after the next catalyst, expected move from the ATM straddle in dollars and percent, then the gap between that and what the headlines expect. End with three lines: what the market is pricing, what the crowd is saying, which one has to be wrong. Missing data? Name it and stop. Anything else is outside your scope.
How it is set up
The moment Grok Bot could read live prices and option chains, the obvious question was "should I buy NVDA". Alex Prompter's move is smarter and more honest: don't ask the bot to predict - ask it to *read what the options market is already predicting*, and hold that up against the headline narrative.
1. Paste the prompt below. It scopes the bot tightly: a live connection for quotes, chains and Greeks; web search only for catalysts and headlines; nothing else.
2. Name your tickers - the ones with an earnings call or a Fed day coming. For each, the bot pulls the live price and the nearest expiry *after* the catalyst.
3. It reads the expected move from the at-the-money straddle - the options market's own priced-in range for the event - in dollars and percent.
4. It compares that to the crowd. The gap between what the straddle implies and what the headlines are saying is the whole point: it ends every ticker with three lines - what the market is pricing, what the crowd is saying, and which of the two has to be wrong.
5. If data is missing, it names it and stops - no guessing, no invented numbers.
Why it works
The straddle already contains a number most retail traders never look at: the market's own consensus for how far a stock moves on its catalyst. Alex's prompt does one clever thing - it refuses to answer the question everyone asks ("should I buy") and instead surfaces the number everyone ignores (what's already priced in). That reframe is the value: "the market expects an 8% move and the headlines are acting like it's a sure thing - one of those has to be wrong" is a far more useful thought than a bot's guess about direction. The scope discipline is what makes it trustworthy - live data for the math, web only for the narrative, and a hard stop on missing data or anything resembling an order. It's read-only by construction, which is exactly right for a tool whose job is to show you the board clearly, not to play your hand.
Before you run it
Paste Alex's prompt as-is; it needs your Grok Bot's live market connection for quotes, chains and Greeks, plus web search for catalysts. It is read-only - it reports the expected move, never trades. Treat the output as a lens on market expectations, not financial advice.
Source
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Grok Bot can now read live stock prices and option chains. Everyone will use it to ask 'should I buy NVDA'. I'll be using it to see what the market is expecting before every…