■ 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 — 470 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BURL open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.
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, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 40.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25
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, Sep 25
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.93
-0.05
290
0.0027
0.17
-0.08
-0.07
0.87
-0.10
305
0.0042
0.26
-0.12
-0.13
0.79
-0.15
320
0.0058
0.35
-0.17
-0.21
0.76
-0.16
325
0.0063
0.38
-0.18
-0.25
0.68
-0.19
335
0.0072
0.43
-0.20
-0.32
0.64
-0.20
340
0.0075
0.45
-0.21
-0.36
0.57
-0.22
350
0.0079
0.48
-0.22
-0.44
0.41
-0.22
370
0.0077
0.47
-0.22
-0.59
0.05
-0.07
470
0.0018
0.13
-0.01
-0.97
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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.