■ 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 — 42 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CNP open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.
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 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 16.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18
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 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.00
35
0.0226
0.01
-0.01
-0.04
0.96
-0.01
36
0.0403
0.01
-0.01
-0.07
0.86
-0.01
38
0.0941
0.03
-0.01
-0.16
0.76
-0.01
39
0.1234
0.04
-0.01
-0.25
0.63
-0.01
40
0.1520
0.05
-0.01
-0.38
0.47
-0.01
41
0.1663
0.05
-0.01
-0.54
0.31
-0.01
42
0.1498
0.04
-0.01
-0.71
0.19
-0.01
43
0.1131
0.04
-0.01
-0.84
0.11
-0.01
44
0.0765
0.03
-0.01
-0.92
0.07
-0.01
45
0.0492
0.02
-0.00
-0.96
0.04
-0.00
46
0.0312
0.01
-0.00
-0.98
0.03
-0.00
47
0.0199
0.01
-0.00
-0.99
0.02
-0.00
48
0.0129
0.01
0.00
-1.00
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 15 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.