■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 310 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 14
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AAPL open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 14.
Open-interest change — building vs unwinding
Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration — the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.
Volume by strike · Fri, Aug 14
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 14
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 14
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.
Greeks by strike · Fri, Aug 14
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.78
-0.22
322.5
0.0117
0.22
-0.22
-0.22
0.75
-0.23
325
0.0127
0.23
-0.24
-0.25
0.72
-0.25
327.5
0.0137
0.25
-0.25
-0.28
0.68
-0.26
330
0.0146
0.26
-0.26
-0.32
0.65
-0.27
332.5
0.0154
0.27
-0.27
-0.36
0.61
-0.27
335
0.0161
0.28
-0.27
-0.40
0.57
-0.28
337.5
0.0166
0.29
-0.28
-0.44
0.52
-0.28
340
0.0170
0.29
-0.28
-0.48
0.48
-0.27
342.5
0.0172
0.29
-0.28
-0.52
0.44
-0.27
345
0.0172
0.29
-0.27
-0.56
0.40
-0.26
347.5
0.0169
0.28
-0.26
-0.61
0.35
-0.25
350
0.0165
0.27
-0.25
-0.65
0.31
-0.23
352.5
0.0158
0.26
-0.23
-0.69
0.27
-0.22
355
0.0150
0.25
-0.22
-0.73
0.21
-0.18
360
0.0129
0.21
-0.18
-0.80
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 58 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.
Stacked — layer the expirations
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.
Max pain history
History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.
Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.
Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.