■ 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 — 290 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HEI open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 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 · Fri, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 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 · Fri, Jan 15
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.84
-0.07
290
0.0026
0.60
-0.07
-0.17
0.81
-0.07
300
0.0029
0.67
-0.08
-0.20
0.77
-0.08
310
0.0032
0.73
-0.09
-0.23
0.73
-0.09
320
0.0036
0.80
-0.09
-0.27
0.69
-0.09
330
0.0038
0.85
-0.10
-0.31
0.65
-0.10
340
0.0040
0.89
-0.10
-0.36
0.61
-0.10
350
0.0042
0.93
-0.11
-0.40
0.57
-0.10
360
0.0044
0.95
-0.11
-0.45
0.52
-0.10
370
0.0044
0.96
-0.11
-0.49
0.48
-0.10
380
0.0045
0.96
-0.11
-0.54
0.44
-0.10
390
0.0044
0.95
-0.11
-0.58
0.40
-0.10
400
0.0044
0.93
-0.11
-0.63
0.36
-0.10
410
0.0042
0.91
-0.10
-0.67
0.32
-0.09
420
0.0041
0.87
-0.10
-0.71
0.29
-0.09
430
0.0039
0.83
-0.10
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 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.