Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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.
■ 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 — 280 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Apr 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AXP open contracts per strike for Fri, Apr 16.
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, Apr 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Apr 16
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 26.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Apr 16
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, Apr 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.93
-0.02
240
0.0021
0.30
-0.03
-0.08
0.90
-0.03
250
0.0027
0.38
-0.03
-0.10
0.87
-0.04
260
0.0034
0.46
-0.04
-0.14
0.83
-0.04
270
0.0042
0.55
-0.05
-0.18
0.78
-0.05
280
0.0049
0.64
-0.05
-0.23
0.72
-0.06
290
0.0057
0.72
-0.06
-0.28
0.66
-0.06
300
0.0063
0.79
-0.06
-0.35
0.60
-0.06
310
0.0068
0.83
-0.07
-0.42
0.53
-0.06
320
0.0070
0.86
-0.07
-0.49
0.46
-0.06
330
0.0071
0.86
-0.07
-0.56
0.40
-0.06
340
0.0069
0.83
-0.07
-0.63
0.33
-0.06
350
0.0066
0.79
-0.06
-0.70
0.28
-0.05
360
0.0060
0.73
-0.06
-0.77
0.23
-0.05
370
0.0054
0.66
-0.06
-0.83
0.18
-0.04
380
0.0048
0.58
-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 26 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.