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 — 5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AUR 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 ≈ 82.6% · 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
0.98
-0.01
1
0.0092
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
0.97
-0.01
1.5
0.0167
0.00
-0.01
-0.03
0.96
-0.01
2
0.0280
0.00
-0.01
-0.04
0.93
-0.01
3
0.0758
0.00
-0.01
-0.07
0.90
-0.01
3.5
0.1301
0.00
-0.01
-0.10
0.83
-0.01
4
0.2360
0.00
-0.01
-0.17
0.69
-0.01
4.5
0.4244
0.00
-0.01
-0.31
0.45
-0.01
5
0.4978
0.00
-0.01
-0.55
0.28
-0.01
5.5
0.3657
0.00
-0.01
-0.72
0.19
-0.01
6
0.2554
0.00
-0.01
-0.81
0.14
-0.01
6.5
0.1853
0.00
-0.01
-0.86
0.10
-0.01
7
0.1398
0.00
-0.01
-0.90
0.08
-0.01
7.5
0.1088
0.00
-0.01
-0.92
0.07
-0.01
8
0.0868
0.00
-0.01
-0.94
0.05
-0.01
8.5
0.0706
0.00
-0.01
-0.95
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 16 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.