Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 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 — 170 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DDOG 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 ≈ 71.1% · 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
0.88
-0.14
210
0.0024
0.21
-0.15
-0.12
0.85
-0.16
220
0.0029
0.25
-0.17
-0.15
0.81
-0.19
230
0.0034
0.29
-0.20
-0.19
0.77
-0.21
240
0.0038
0.33
-0.22
-0.23
0.72
-0.24
250
0.0043
0.36
-0.24
-0.28
0.68
-0.26
260
0.0046
0.39
-0.26
-0.33
0.62
-0.27
270
0.0049
0.41
-0.27
-0.38
0.57
-0.28
280
0.0051
0.42
-0.28
-0.43
0.52
-0.28
290
0.0052
0.43
-0.28
-0.48
0.47
-0.28
300
0.0052
0.43
-0.28
-0.53
0.42
-0.28
310
0.0051
0.42
-0.28
-0.58
0.38
-0.27
320
0.0050
0.41
-0.27
-0.63
0.34
-0.26
330
0.0048
0.39
-0.25
-0.67
0.29
-0.24
340
0.0046
0.37
-0.24
-0.71
0.26
-0.23
350
0.0043
0.35
-0.22
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 54 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.