■ 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 — 80 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Apr 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HCC open contracts per strike for Fri, Apr 16.
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, Apr 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Apr 16
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 49.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Apr 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, Apr 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.95
-0.01
55
0.0018
0.09
-0.01
-0.05
0.93
-0.01
60
0.0023
0.11
-0.01
-0.06
0.92
-0.01
65
0.0030
0.13
-0.02
-0.08
0.89
-0.02
70
0.0036
0.16
-0.02
-0.10
0.84
-0.02
80
0.0052
0.21
-0.03
-0.16
0.77
-0.03
90
0.0067
0.27
-0.03
-0.23
0.64
-0.03
105
0.0085
0.32
-0.04
-0.37
0.59
-0.04
110
0.0088
0.34
-0.04
-0.41
0.55
-0.04
115
0.0091
0.34
-0.04
-0.46
0.51
-0.04
120
0.0092
0.34
-0.04
-0.50
0.47
-0.04
125
0.0092
0.34
-0.04
-0.55
0.43
-0.04
130
0.0091
0.34
-0.04
-0.59
0.39
-0.04
135
0.0089
0.33
-0.04
-0.63
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.
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.