Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 — 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 — 190 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BA open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.
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, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30
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, Oct 30
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.02
155
0.0025
0.02
-0.02
-0.02
0.97
-0.03
160
0.0038
0.03
-0.03
-0.03
0.95
-0.04
165
0.0061
0.05
-0.04
-0.05
0.91
-0.07
170
0.0096
0.08
-0.07
-0.09
0.84
-0.10
175
0.0140
0.11
-0.10
-0.16
0.76
-0.13
180
0.0182
0.14
-0.13
-0.24
0.65
-0.15
185
0.0216
0.17
-0.15
-0.35
0.54
-0.16
190
0.0233
0.18
-0.16
-0.47
0.42
-0.16
195
0.0230
0.18
-0.16
-0.58
0.32
-0.15
200
0.0209
0.16
-0.15
-0.69
0.23
-0.13
205
0.0176
0.14
-0.13
-0.78
0.16
-0.10
210
0.0140
0.11
-0.10
-0.85
0.11
-0.08
215
0.0106
0.09
-0.08
-0.90
0.07
-0.06
220
0.0078
0.07
-0.06
-0.94
0.05
-0.04
225
0.0057
0.05
-0.05
-0.96
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 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.