■ 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 — 65 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)D 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 ≈ 20.4% · 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
0.97
-0.00
50
0.0071
0.03
-0.01
-0.05
0.95
-0.00
52.5
0.0101
0.04
-0.01
-0.06
0.93
-0.01
55
0.0136
0.05
-0.01
-0.09
0.90
-0.01
57.5
0.0182
0.07
-0.01
-0.12
0.85
-0.01
60
0.0247
0.09
-0.01
-0.17
0.79
-0.01
62.5
0.0333
0.11
-0.01
-0.24
0.70
-0.01
65
0.0430
0.13
-0.01
-0.33
0.58
-0.01
67.5
0.0511
0.15
-0.01
-0.45
0.45
-0.01
70
0.0539
0.15
-0.01
-0.57
0.33
-0.01
72.5
0.0497
0.14
-0.01
-0.69
0.23
-0.01
75
0.0408
0.12
-0.01
-0.79
0.15
-0.01
77.5
0.0311
0.09
-0.01
-0.86
0.10
-0.01
80
0.0229
0.07
-0.01
-0.92
0.05
-0.00
85
0.0121
0.04
-0.00
-0.97
0.03
-0.00
90
0.0066
0.03
—
-0.99
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.