■ 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 — 47.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DK open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.
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, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16
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, Oct 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.87
-0.03
50
0.0106
0.06
-0.03
-0.13
0.84
-0.04
52.5
0.0128
0.06
-0.04
-0.15
0.81
-0.04
55
0.0152
0.07
-0.04
-0.19
0.76
-0.04
57.5
0.0178
0.08
-0.04
-0.23
0.71
-0.05
60
0.0203
0.09
-0.05
-0.28
0.66
-0.05
62.5
0.0224
0.10
-0.05
-0.34
0.60
-0.05
65
0.0238
0.10
-0.05
-0.40
0.54
-0.05
67.5
0.0244
0.11
-0.05
-0.46
0.48
-0.05
70
0.0243
0.11
-0.05
-0.52
0.37
-0.05
75
0.0224
0.10
-0.05
-0.62
0.29
-0.05
80
0.0195
0.09
-0.05
-0.70
0.23
-0.05
85
0.0166
0.08
-0.04
-0.76
0.15
-0.04
95
0.0118
0.06
-0.04
-0.84
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 26 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.