■ 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 — 110 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRH open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 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, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 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, Dec 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.96
-0.01
60
0.0030
0.05
-0.01
-0.04
0.92
-0.01
70
0.0063
0.09
-0.02
-0.09
0.88
-0.02
75
0.0087
0.11
-0.02
-0.13
0.83
-0.02
80
0.0116
0.14
-0.02
-0.18
0.76
-0.03
85
0.0148
0.17
-0.03
-0.25
0.68
-0.03
90
0.0178
0.20
-0.03
-0.33
0.63
-0.03
92.5
0.0190
0.21
-0.03
-0.38
0.58
-0.03
95
0.0199
0.22
-0.03
-0.43
0.53
-0.03
97.5
0.0205
0.22
-0.03
-0.48
0.48
-0.03
100
0.0207
0.22
-0.03
-0.53
0.38
-0.03
105
0.0200
0.21
-0.03
-0.64
0.30
-0.03
110
0.0182
0.19
-0.03
-0.73
0.23
-0.02
115
0.0158
0.17
-0.02
-0.81
0.17
-0.02
120
0.0132
0.14
-0.02
-0.87
0.13
-0.02
125
0.0108
0.12
-0.02
-0.93
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 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.