■ 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 — 10.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BW 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 ≈ 95.5% · 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
0.89
-0.01
7
0.0491
0.01
-0.01
-0.11
0.86
-0.01
7.5
0.0613
0.01
-0.01
-0.14
0.82
-0.01
8
0.0747
0.01
-0.01
-0.18
0.77
-0.01
8.5
0.0886
0.01
-0.01
-0.22
0.72
-0.01
9
0.1017
0.01
-0.01
-0.28
0.66
-0.01
9.5
0.1127
0.01
-0.01
-0.33
0.60
-0.01
10
0.1202
0.01
-0.01
-0.40
0.54
-0.01
10.5
0.1238
0.01
-0.01
-0.46
0.48
-0.01
11
0.1234
0.01
-0.01
-0.52
0.38
-0.01
12
0.1145
0.01
-0.01
-0.62
0.34
-0.01
12.5
0.1078
0.01
-0.01
-0.66
0.20
-0.01
15
0.0741
0.01
-0.01
-0.80
0.17
-0.01
16
0.0637
0.01
-0.01
-0.83
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 16 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.