■ 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 — 15 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DQ open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 21.
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 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 69.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 21
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 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.96
-0.00
3
0.0036
0.01
-0.00
-0.03
0.86
-0.00
8
0.0147
0.04
-0.00
-0.12
0.81
-0.00
10
0.0199
0.05
-0.00
-0.18
0.72
-0.00
13
0.0259
0.06
-0.00
-0.27
0.66
-0.00
15
0.0282
0.06
-0.00
-0.33
0.59
-0.00
18
0.0298
0.07
-0.00
-0.41
0.55
-0.00
20
0.0301
0.07
-0.00
-0.46
0.49
-0.00
23
0.0299
0.07
-0.00
-0.53
0.46
-0.01
25
0.0294
0.07
-0.00
-0.56
0.43
-0.01
27
0.0288
0.07
-0.00
-0.60
0.39
-0.01
30
0.0278
0.07
-0.00
-0.65
0.37
-0.00
32
0.0271
0.07
-0.00
-0.68
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 18 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.