■ 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 — 63 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AGQ open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.
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, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 77.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4
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, Sep 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.62
-0.15
74
0.0295
0.06
-0.15
-0.39
0.60
-0.15
74.5
0.0298
0.06
-0.15
-0.41
0.59
-0.15
75
0.0300
0.06
-0.15
-0.42
0.56
-0.15
76
0.0303
0.07
-0.15
-0.45
0.53
-0.15
77
0.0304
0.07
-0.16
-0.48
0.51
-0.16
77.5
0.0303
0.07
-0.16
-0.50
0.50
-0.16
78
0.0302
0.07
-0.16
-0.51
0.48
-0.16
78.5
0.0301
0.07
-0.16
-0.53
0.47
-0.16
79
0.0300
0.07
-0.16
-0.54
0.44
-0.16
80
0.0295
0.07
-0.16
-0.57
0.41
-0.16
81
0.0289
0.06
-0.16
-0.59
0.40
-0.15
81.5
0.0285
0.06
-0.16
-0.61
0.39
-0.15
82
0.0282
0.06
-0.16
-0.62
0.36
-0.15
83
0.0274
0.06
-0.15
-0.64
0.34
-0.15
84
0.0265
0.06
-0.15
-0.67
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 55 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.