Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 — 80 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BJ open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 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, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 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, Jan 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.95
0.00
55
0.0029
0.13
-0.01
-0.06
0.93
-0.00
60
0.0039
0.16
-0.01
-0.09
0.90
-0.00
65
0.0050
0.20
-0.01
-0.12
0.86
-0.01
70
0.0061
0.24
-0.01
-0.15
0.82
-0.01
75
0.0074
0.29
-0.01
-0.20
0.78
-0.01
80
0.0085
0.32
-0.01
-0.25
0.73
-0.01
85
0.0096
0.36
-0.01
-0.30
0.68
-0.01
90
0.0106
0.39
-0.01
-0.36
0.62
-0.01
95
0.0113
0.41
-0.01
-0.43
0.57
-0.01
100
0.0118
0.42
-0.01
-0.50
0.51
-0.01
105
0.0120
0.43
-0.02
-0.57
0.46
-0.01
110
0.0121
0.43
-0.02
-0.64
0.41
-0.01
115
0.0119
0.42
-0.02
-0.71
0.36
-0.01
120
0.0115
0.40
-0.02
-0.78
0.32
-0.01
125
0.0110
0.38
-0.02
-0.85
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 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.