Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — 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 — 65 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMDL open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 122.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.81
-0.09
43
0.0145
0.04
-0.09
-0.19
0.79
-0.10
44
0.0153
0.04
-0.10
-0.21
0.77
-0.10
45
0.0162
0.05
-0.10
-0.23
0.73
-0.11
47
0.0177
0.05
-0.11
-0.27
0.71
-0.11
48
0.0184
0.05
-0.11
-0.29
0.67
-0.12
50
0.0196
0.06
-0.12
-0.33
0.62
-0.12
52
0.0206
0.06
-0.12
-0.37
0.56
-0.13
55
0.0215
0.06
-0.13
-0.44
0.54
-0.13
56
0.0217
0.06
-0.13
-0.46
0.52
-0.13
57
0.0218
0.06
-0.13
-0.48
0.50
-0.13
58
0.0219
0.06
-0.13
-0.50
0.46
-0.13
60
0.0218
0.06
-0.13
-0.54
0.42
-0.13
62
0.0214
0.06
-0.13
-0.58
0.40
-0.13
63
0.0212
0.06
-0.13
-0.60
0.36
-0.12
65
0.0206
0.06
-0.12
-0.64
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 38 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.