Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 — 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 — 185 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 28
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRWD open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 28.
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, Aug 28
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 28
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 68.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 28
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, Aug 28
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.87
-0.17
175
0.0057
0.11
-0.17
-0.13
0.83
-0.20
180
0.0068
0.13
-0.20
-0.17
0.79
-0.22
185
0.0078
0.15
-0.23
-0.21
0.75
-0.25
190
0.0088
0.17
-0.25
-0.25
0.70
-0.27
195
0.0096
0.18
-0.28
-0.30
0.65
-0.29
200
0.0102
0.20
-0.30
-0.36
0.59
-0.31
205
0.0106
0.20
-0.31
-0.41
0.54
-0.32
210
0.0108
0.21
-0.32
-0.46
0.48
-0.32
215
0.0108
0.21
-0.32
-0.52
0.43
-0.32
220
0.0107
0.21
-0.32
-0.57
0.38
-0.31
225
0.0103
0.20
-0.31
-0.62
0.34
-0.29
230
0.0099
0.19
-0.29
-0.67
0.29
-0.28
235
0.0093
0.18
-0.28
-0.71
0.26
-0.26
240
0.0086
0.17
-0.26
-0.75
0.22
-0.24
245
0.0080
0.16
-0.24
-0.78
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.