Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — 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 — 379 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Thu, Oct 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GLD open contracts per strike for Thu, Oct 15.
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 · Thu, Oct 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Oct 15
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 20.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Oct 15
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 · Thu, Oct 15
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.72
-0.25
370
0.0284
0.19
-0.25
-0.28
0.70
-0.26
371
0.0300
0.20
-0.26
-0.30
0.67
-0.27
372
0.0314
0.20
-0.27
-0.34
0.60
-0.28
374
0.0336
0.21
-0.29
-0.40
0.57
-0.29
375
0.0344
0.22
-0.29
-0.43
0.53
-0.29
376
0.0349
0.22
-0.29
-0.47
0.50
-0.29
377
0.0351
0.22
-0.29
-0.51
0.46
-0.29
378
0.0350
0.22
-0.29
-0.54
0.43
-0.28
379
0.0347
0.22
-0.29
-0.57
0.40
-0.28
380
0.0340
0.21
-0.28
-0.61
0.36
-0.27
381
0.0331
0.21
-0.27
-0.64
0.33
-0.26
382
0.0320
0.20
-0.26
-0.68
0.30
-0.25
383
0.0306
0.20
-0.25
-0.71
0.27
-0.24
384
0.0291
0.19
-0.24
-0.74
0.24
-0.23
385
0.0275
0.18
-0.23
-0.76
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 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.