■ 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 — 46 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)EXC 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 ≈ 18.6% · 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
0.99
-0.00
35
0.0055
0.01
-0.00
-0.03
0.94
-0.01
40
0.0331
0.02
-0.01
-0.09
0.91
-0.01
41
0.0465
0.03
-0.01
-0.12
0.87
-0.01
42
0.0640
0.04
-0.01
-0.16
0.81
-0.01
43
0.0844
0.05
-0.01
-0.22
0.72
-0.01
44
0.1044
0.06
-0.01
-0.30
0.61
-0.01
45
0.1176
0.07
-0.01
-0.41
0.49
-0.01
46
0.1190
0.07
-0.01
-0.53
0.38
-0.01
47
0.1092
0.07
-0.01
-0.64
0.29
-0.01
48
0.0936
0.07
-0.01
-0.73
0.23
-0.01
49
0.0773
0.06
-0.01
-0.80
0.18
-0.01
50
0.0631
0.05
-0.01
-0.85
0.07
-0.01
55
0.0241
0.03
-0.01
-0.95
0.03
-0.00
60
0.0114
0.01
-0.00
-0.98
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 15 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.