Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 — 270 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CEG 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 ≈ 45.6% · 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
0.87
-0.17
265
0.0063
0.16
-0.18
-0.14
0.83
-0.20
270
0.0075
0.18
-0.20
-0.17
0.79
-0.23
275
0.0087
0.21
-0.23
-0.21
0.74
-0.26
280
0.0098
0.23
-0.26
-0.26
0.69
-0.28
285
0.0108
0.25
-0.28
-0.32
0.63
-0.30
290
0.0115
0.27
-0.30
-0.37
0.57
-0.31
295
0.0120
0.28
-0.31
-0.43
0.51
-0.31
300
0.0122
0.28
-0.32
-0.49
0.45
-0.31
305
0.0121
0.28
-0.31
-0.56
0.39
-0.30
310
0.0117
0.28
-0.30
-0.61
0.34
-0.29
315
0.0111
0.26
-0.29
-0.67
0.29
-0.27
320
0.0103
0.24
-0.27
-0.72
0.25
-0.25
325
0.0094
0.23
-0.25
-0.76
0.21
-0.23
330
0.0085
0.20
-0.23
-0.80
0.17
-0.20
335
0.0075
0.18
-0.21
-0.84
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 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.