Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — 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 — 48 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CSX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.
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, Nov 27
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 22.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27
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, Nov 27
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.97
-0.01
42
0.0119
0.01
-0.01
-0.03
0.96
-0.01
43
0.0154
0.01
-0.01
-0.04
0.93
-0.01
45
0.0269
0.02
-0.01
-0.07
0.91
-0.01
46
0.0359
0.03
-0.01
-0.09
0.83
-0.01
48
0.0638
0.04
-0.01
-0.17
0.77
-0.02
49
0.0822
0.05
-0.02
-0.23
0.68
-0.02
50
0.1006
0.05
-0.02
-0.32
0.57
-0.02
51
0.1137
0.06
-0.02
-0.43
0.46
-0.02
52
0.1165
0.06
-0.02
-0.55
0.35
-0.02
53
0.1083
0.06
-0.02
-0.66
0.26
-0.02
54
0.0926
0.05
-0.02
-0.76
0.18
-0.01
55
0.0745
0.04
-0.01
-0.84
0.13
-0.01
56
0.0575
0.03
-0.01
-0.90
0.09
-0.01
57
0.0431
0.03
-0.01
-0.94
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 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.