Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 — 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 — 65 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FEIM open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 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, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 95.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 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, Aug 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
-0.00
25
0.0002
0.00
-0.00
-0.00
0.99
-0.01
30
0.0011
0.00
-0.01
-0.01
0.98
-0.02
35
0.0035
0.01
-0.02
-0.02
0.94
-0.04
40
0.0080
0.02
-0.04
-0.06
0.87
-0.08
45
0.0143
0.03
-0.08
-0.13
0.76
-0.11
50
0.0209
0.04
-0.11
-0.24
0.64
-0.13
55
0.0259
0.05
-0.13
-0.37
0.50
-0.14
60
0.0280
0.06
-0.14
-0.51
0.37
-0.13
65
0.0268
0.05
-0.13
-0.64
0.26
-0.11
70
0.0232
0.04
-0.11
-0.75
0.17
-0.08
75
0.0184
0.04
-0.08
-0.84
0.11
-0.06
80
0.0135
0.03
-0.06
-0.90
0.06
-0.04
85
0.0092
0.02
-0.04
-0.95
0.04
-0.02
90
0.0059
0.01
-0.02
-0.97
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 17 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.