SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:09 AM ET
How3,950 put contracts / 4,878 call contracts = 0.81 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:09 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 12.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 12.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BOIL open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 100.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.96
-0.01
11
0.0234
0.00
-0.01
-0.04
0.92
-0.01
12
0.0412
0.01
-0.01
-0.08
0.86
-0.02
13
0.0637
0.01
-0.02
-0.14
0.77
-0.03
14
0.0863
0.01
-0.03
-0.23
0.72
-0.03
14.5
0.0957
0.01
-0.03
-0.28
0.67
-0.04
15
0.1029
0.01
-0.04
-0.34
0.61
-0.04
15.5
0.1076
0.01
-0.04
-0.39
0.55
-0.04
16
0.1099
0.01
-0.04
-0.45
0.50
-0.04
16.5
0.1099
0.01
-0.04
-0.50
0.45
-0.04
17
0.1078
0.01
-0.04
-0.55
0.40
-0.04
17.5
0.1043
0.01
-0.04
-0.60
0.36
-0.04
18
0.0995
0.01
-0.04
-0.65
0.32
-0.04
18.5
0.0940
0.01
-0.04
-0.69
0.28
-0.04
19
0.0880
0.01
-0.04
-0.72
0.25
-0.03
19.5
0.0819
0.01
-0.03
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.