■ 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 — 35 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BHYP open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.
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, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 81.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21
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, Aug 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.88
-0.03
25
0.0344
0.01
-0.03
-0.12
0.73
-0.05
28
0.0609
0.02
-0.05
-0.27
0.66
-0.06
29
0.0680
0.03
-0.06
-0.34
0.59
-0.06
30
0.0728
0.03
-0.06
-0.41
0.51
-0.06
31
0.0748
0.03
-0.06
-0.49
0.37
-0.06
33
0.0707
0.03
-0.06
-0.63
0.31
-0.05
34
0.0656
0.02
-0.05
-0.69
0.26
-0.05
35
0.0595
0.02
-0.05
-0.74
0.17
-0.04
37
0.0463
0.02
-0.04
-0.83
0.14
-0.04
38
0.0401
0.01
-0.03
-0.86
0.12
-0.03
39
0.0344
0.01
-0.03
-0.89
0.10
-0.03
40
0.0294
0.01
-0.03
-0.91
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 18 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.