■ 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 — 24 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BXSL 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 ≈ 20.6% · 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
1.00
—
15
0.0010
0.01
-0.00
-0.03
1.00
—
16
0.0047
0.00
-0.00
-0.04
0.99
0.00
17.5
0.0120
0.00
-0.00
-0.06
0.98
-0.00
19
0.0224
0.01
-0.00
-0.10
0.96
-0.00
20
0.0362
0.01
-0.00
-0.13
0.93
-0.00
21
0.0604
0.01
-0.00
-0.18
0.83
-0.00
22.5
0.1358
0.03
-0.01
-0.32
0.56
-0.01
24
0.2460
0.04
-0.00
-0.57
0.33
-0.01
25
0.2186
0.04
-0.00
-0.74
0.17
-0.00
26
0.1354
0.03
-0.00
-0.85
0.08
-0.00
27.5
0.0634
0.02
-0.00
-0.92
0.04
-0.00
30
0.0253
0.01
0.00
-0.96
0.01
-0.00
37
0.0057
0.00
—
-0.99
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 14 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.