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 — 1100 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BLK open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.
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 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 27.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15
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 15
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.74
-0.30
1040
0.0021
1.75
-0.30
-0.27
0.72
-0.31
1050
0.0022
1.82
-0.31
-0.29
0.69
-0.31
1060
0.0023
1.88
-0.32
-0.31
0.67
-0.32
1070
0.0024
1.94
-0.33
-0.34
0.65
-0.33
1080
0.0025
1.99
-0.34
-0.36
0.62
-0.33
1090
0.0026
2.04
-0.34
-0.39
0.59
-0.34
1100
0.0026
2.07
-0.35
-0.42
0.54
-0.34
1120
0.0027
2.12
-0.35
-0.47
0.51
-0.34
1130
0.0028
2.13
-0.35
-0.50
0.48
-0.34
1140
0.0028
2.13
-0.35
-0.53
0.46
-0.34
1150
0.0028
2.12
-0.35
-0.56
0.43
-0.33
1160
0.0028
2.10
-0.34
-0.59
0.38
-0.32
1180
0.0027
2.03
-0.33
-0.64
0.33
-0.30
1200
0.0026
1.93
-0.31
-0.69
0.28
-0.28
1220
0.0024
1.81
-0.28
-0.74
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 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.