SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 10:15 PM ET
How1,606 put contracts / 2,077 call contracts = 0.77 for the 2026-12-18 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 10:15 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-12-18 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 10.6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 10.6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ARKW open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 18.
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, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 18
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, Dec 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.77
-0.08
130
0.0161
0.14
-0.08
-0.23
0.73
-0.08
132
0.0177
0.15
-0.08
-0.26
0.68
-0.08
135
0.0200
0.16
-0.08
-0.32
0.64
-0.09
137
0.0213
0.17
-0.09
-0.36
0.59
-0.09
139
0.0225
0.18
-0.09
-0.40
0.57
-0.09
140
0.0230
0.18
-0.09
-0.42
0.55
-0.09
141
0.0234
0.18
-0.09
-0.45
0.52
-0.09
142
0.0237
0.18
-0.09
-0.47
0.50
-0.09
143
0.0239
0.18
-0.09
-0.50
0.48
-0.09
144
0.0240
0.18
-0.09
-0.52
0.45
-0.09
145
0.0240
0.18
-0.09
-0.54
0.43
-0.08
146
0.0239
0.18
-0.08
-0.57
0.41
-0.08
147
0.0236
0.18
-0.08
-0.59
0.38
-0.08
148
0.0233
0.17
-0.08
-0.61
0.36
-0.08
149
0.0229
0.17
-0.08
-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 34 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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.