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 — 225 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HLT open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.
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 13
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13
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 13
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.03
225
0.0004
0.03
-0.03
-0.01
0.96
-0.07
270
0.0016
0.08
-0.07
-0.04
0.96
-0.07
275
0.0019
0.09
-0.07
-0.04
0.86
-0.14
310
0.0060
0.21
-0.14
-0.14
0.80
-0.17
320
0.0083
0.27
-0.17
-0.20
0.76
-0.18
325
0.0096
0.30
-0.18
-0.24
0.66
-0.20
335
0.0122
0.35
-0.20
-0.34
0.53
-0.20
345
0.0141
0.38
-0.20
-0.47
0.39
-0.19
355
0.0139
0.37
-0.19
-0.62
0.33
-0.18
360
0.0130
0.35
-0.18
-0.68
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.