Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · 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 — 19 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GME open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.
Open-interest change · 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-11
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 18 −1K · 22 +982 · 21 +692 · 25 −425
Volume by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16
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, Oct 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.00
14
0.0092
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.98
-0.00
15
0.0138
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.97
-0.00
16
0.0215
0.01
-0.00
-0.03
0.95
-0.00
17
0.0351
0.01
-0.00
-0.05
0.91
-0.01
18
0.0597
0.01
-0.01
-0.09
0.83
-0.01
19
0.0962
0.02
-0.01
-0.17
0.70
-0.01
20
0.1292
0.02
-0.01
-0.30
0.56
-0.02
21
0.1406
0.03
-0.02
-0.45
0.43
-0.02
22
0.1309
0.03
-0.02
-0.58
0.33
-0.02
23
0.1116
0.02
-0.02
-0.68
0.26
-0.02
24
0.0921
0.02
-0.02
-0.75
0.20
-0.01
25
0.0753
0.02
-0.01
-0.81
0.17
-0.01
26
0.0621
0.02
-0.01
-0.84
0.15
-0.01
27
0.0522
0.01
-0.01
-0.86
0.13
-0.01
28
0.0448
0.01
-0.01
-0.88
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 42 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 history — nearest expiry vs price
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.
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.