■ 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 — 200 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)EAT 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 ≈ 50.5% · 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
0.79
-0.03
185
0.0019
0.81
-0.04
-0.22
0.78
-0.03
190
0.0020
0.84
-0.04
-0.23
0.77
-0.04
195
0.0021
0.87
-0.04
-0.24
0.76
-0.04
200
0.0021
0.89
-0.04
-0.26
0.73
-0.04
210
0.0022
0.94
-0.05
-0.28
0.71
-0.04
220
0.0024
0.98
-0.05
-0.31
0.68
-0.04
230
0.0024
1.02
-0.05
-0.34
0.66
-0.04
240
0.0025
1.05
-0.05
-0.37
0.63
-0.05
250
0.0026
1.08
-0.05
-0.39
0.60
-0.05
260
0.0027
1.10
-0.05
-0.42
0.58
-0.05
270
0.0027
1.11
-0.05
-0.45
0.56
-0.05
280
0.0028
1.12
-0.05
-0.48
0.53
-0.05
290
0.0028
1.13
-0.06
-0.51
0.51
-0.05
300
0.0028
1.14
-0.06
-0.53
0.49
-0.05
310
0.0028
1.14
-0.05
-0.56
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 42 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.