Event risk before this expiration: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 — 32 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BLSH 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 ≈ 74.9% · 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
0.94
-0.03
23
0.0246
0.01
-0.03
-0.05
0.93
-0.03
23.5
0.0295
0.01
-0.03
-0.07
0.92
-0.04
24
0.0353
0.01
-0.04
-0.08
0.90
-0.04
24.5
0.0421
0.01
-0.04
-0.10
0.88
-0.05
25
0.0500
0.01
-0.05
-0.12
0.83
-0.06
26
0.0684
0.01
-0.06
-0.17
0.75
-0.07
27
0.0891
0.01
-0.07
-0.25
0.65
-0.08
28
0.1077
0.02
-0.08
-0.35
0.54
-0.09
29
0.1180
0.02
-0.09
-0.47
0.48
-0.09
29.5
0.1186
0.02
-0.09
-0.52
0.42
-0.08
30
0.1162
0.02
-0.08
-0.58
0.37
-0.08
30.5
0.1111
0.02
-0.08
-0.64
0.32
-0.08
31
0.1042
0.01
-0.08
-0.68
0.27
-0.07
31.5
0.0960
0.01
-0.07
-0.73
0.23
-0.07
32
0.0874
0.01
-0.07
-0.77
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 43 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.