Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
■ 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 — 116 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AFL open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.
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, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6
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, Nov 6
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.84
-0.08
114
0.0315
0.05
-0.08
-0.16
0.82
-0.09
115
0.0363
0.06
-0.09
-0.18
0.78
-0.09
116
0.0414
0.06
-0.10
-0.22
0.74
-0.10
117
0.0468
0.07
-0.10
-0.26
0.70
-0.11
118
0.0522
0.07
-0.11
-0.31
0.65
-0.11
119
0.0571
0.08
-0.11
-0.36
0.59
-0.11
120
0.0610
0.08
-0.12
-0.42
0.53
-0.12
121
0.0636
0.08
-0.12
-0.48
0.46
-0.11
122
0.0643
0.08
-0.11
-0.55
0.40
-0.11
123
0.0631
0.08
-0.11
-0.61
0.34
-0.10
124
0.0599
0.08
-0.10
-0.67
0.28
-0.09
125
0.0553
0.07
-0.10
-0.73
0.23
-0.09
126
0.0497
0.07
-0.09
-0.78
0.15
-0.07
128
0.0378
0.05
-0.07
-0.86
0.13
-0.06
129
0.0323
0.04
-0.06
-0.89
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 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 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.