SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:15 PM ET
How11 put contracts / 3 call contracts = 3.67 for the 2027-03-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Too thin to read: 14 open contracts across 10 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Event risk before this expiration: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.
Too thin to read: 14 open contracts across 10 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Mar 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FXH open contracts per strike for Fri, Mar 19.
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, Mar 19
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Mar 19
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 22.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Greeks by strike · Fri, Mar 19
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.83
-0.02
121
0.0110
0.20
-0.02
-0.16
0.82
-0.02
122
0.0116
0.21
-0.02
-0.17
0.81
-0.02
123
0.0122
0.22
-0.02
-0.18
0.80
-0.02
124
0.0128
0.23
-0.02
-0.19
0.79
-0.02
125
0.0135
0.23
-0.02
-0.21
0.77
-0.02
126
0.0142
0.24
-0.02
-0.22
0.76
-0.02
127
0.0149
0.25
-0.02
-0.23
0.25
-0.02
155
0.0162
0.27
-0.02
-0.76
0.20
-0.02
160
0.0136
0.23
-0.02
-0.81
0.13
-0.02
170
0.0094
0.18
-0.02
-0.89
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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.