■ 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 — 175 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRM 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 ≈ 51.0% · 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
0.93
-0.05
150
0.0038
0.09
-0.06
-0.07
0.91
-0.06
155
0.0048
0.11
-0.07
-0.10
0.87
-0.08
160
0.0059
0.14
-0.08
-0.13
0.84
-0.09
165
0.0071
0.17
-0.10
-0.17
0.79
-0.11
170
0.0083
0.19
-0.11
-0.21
0.75
-0.12
175
0.0094
0.21
-0.13
-0.26
0.69
-0.13
180
0.0103
0.23
-0.14
-0.31
0.64
-0.14
185
0.0111
0.25
-0.14
-0.37
0.58
-0.15
190
0.0115
0.26
-0.15
-0.43
0.52
-0.15
195
0.0117
0.27
-0.15
-0.48
0.46
-0.15
200
0.0117
0.27
-0.15
-0.54
0.36
-0.14
210
0.0109
0.25
-0.14
-0.65
0.27
-0.13
220
0.0096
0.22
-0.12
-0.74
0.19
-0.11
230
0.0079
0.18
-0.10
-0.81
0.14
-0.09
240
0.0063
0.15
-0.08
-0.87
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 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.