Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 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 — 23 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GEN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.00
17
0.0136
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
0.96
-0.01
18
0.0207
0.01
-0.01
-0.04
0.94
-0.01
19
0.0311
0.01
-0.01
-0.06
0.90
-0.01
20
0.0456
0.01
-0.01
-0.10
0.84
-0.02
21
0.0639
0.01
-0.02
-0.16
0.77
-0.02
22
0.0840
0.02
-0.02
-0.23
0.67
-0.03
23
0.1018
0.02
-0.03
-0.33
0.56
-0.03
24
0.1130
0.03
-0.03
-0.44
0.45
-0.03
25
0.1144
0.03
-0.03
-0.55
0.34
-0.03
26
0.1065
0.02
-0.03
-0.66
0.25
-0.02
27
0.0919
0.02
-0.02
-0.75
0.17
-0.02
28
0.0747
0.02
-0.02
-0.82
0.12
-0.01
29
0.0577
0.01
-0.01
-0.88
0.08
-0.01
30
0.0430
0.01
-0.01
-0.92
0.06
-0.01
31
0.0312
0.01
-0.01
-0.94
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 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.