■ 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 — 25 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CYD open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.
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, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 70.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15
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, Jan 15
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
—
20
0.0021
0.01
-0.00
-0.02
0.97
—
22.5
0.0034
0.02
-0.00
-0.03
0.96
-0.00
25
0.0051
0.03
-0.01
-0.05
0.90
-0.01
30
0.0094
0.05
-0.01
-0.11
0.82
-0.01
35
0.0139
0.08
-0.02
-0.19
0.72
-0.02
40
0.0174
0.10
-0.02
-0.29
0.62
-0.02
45
0.0195
0.11
-0.02
-0.39
0.53
-0.03
50
0.0202
0.12
-0.03
-0.49
0.44
-0.03
55
0.0198
0.12
-0.02
-0.58
0.37
-0.02
60
0.0187
0.11
-0.02
-0.66
0.30
-0.02
65
0.0173
0.10
-0.02
-0.72
0.25
-0.02
70
0.0156
0.09
-0.02
-0.78
0.21
-0.02
75
0.0139
0.08
-0.01
-0.83
0.17
-0.02
80
0.0122
0.07
-0.01
-0.87
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 16 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.