Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — 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 — 47.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, May 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FRPT open contracts per strike for Fri, May 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, May 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, May 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 55.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, May 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, May 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.95
-0.01
35
0.0037
0.06
-0.01
-0.06
0.89
-0.01
42.5
0.0067
0.09
-0.01
-0.12
0.87
-0.01
45
0.0078
0.11
-0.01
-0.14
0.84
-0.02
47.5
0.0088
0.12
-0.02
-0.17
0.78
-0.02
52.5
0.0109
0.15
-0.02
-0.23
0.75
-0.02
55
0.0118
0.16
-0.02
-0.27
0.71
-0.02
57.5
0.0127
0.17
-0.02
-0.30
0.53
-0.03
70
0.0151
0.20
-0.03
-0.49
0.47
-0.03
75
0.0152
0.19
-0.03
-0.56
0.40
-0.02
80
0.0148
0.19
-0.03
-0.63
0.34
-0.02
85
0.0142
0.18
-0.03
-0.70
0.29
-0.02
90
0.0133
0.17
-0.02
-0.75
0.25
-0.02
95
0.0122
0.15
-0.02
-0.81
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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.