Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — 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 — 300 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GE open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.
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, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6
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, Nov 6
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.86
-0.13
275
0.0063
0.19
-0.13
-0.14
0.83
-0.15
280
0.0075
0.22
-0.15
-0.17
0.79
-0.17
285
0.0086
0.25
-0.17
-0.21
0.74
-0.19
290
0.0098
0.28
-0.19
-0.26
0.69
-0.21
295
0.0107
0.30
-0.21
-0.31
0.63
-0.22
300
0.0115
0.32
-0.22
-0.37
0.57
-0.23
305
0.0120
0.34
-0.23
-0.43
0.51
-0.23
310
0.0122
0.34
-0.23
-0.49
0.45
-0.23
315
0.0122
0.34
-0.23
-0.55
0.39
-0.22
320
0.0118
0.33
-0.23
-0.61
0.34
-0.21
325
0.0112
0.31
-0.21
-0.67
0.29
-0.20
330
0.0105
0.29
-0.20
-0.72
0.24
-0.18
335
0.0096
0.27
-0.18
-0.77
0.20
-0.16
340
0.0086
0.24
-0.17
-0.81
0.17
-0.14
345
0.0076
0.21
-0.15
-0.85
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 41 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.