■ 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 — 8 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Mar 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HLX open contracts per strike for Fri, Mar 19.
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, Mar 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Mar 19
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 61.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Mar 19
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, Mar 19
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.77
-0.00
8
0.0777
0.02
-0.00
-0.21
0.68
-0.00
9
0.1024
0.03
-0.00
-0.31
0.56
-0.00
10
0.1167
0.03
-0.00
-0.42
0.45
-0.00
11
0.1133
0.03
-0.00
-0.53
0.31
-0.00
13
0.0887
0.03
-0.00
-0.67
0.27
-0.00
14
0.0778
0.03
-0.00
-0.71
0.24
-0.00
15
0.0689
0.02
-0.00
-0.74
0.21
-0.00
16
0.0615
0.02
-0.00
-0.77
0.19
-0.00
17
0.0555
0.02
-0.00
-0.79
0.17
-0.00
18
0.0504
0.02
-0.00
-0.81
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.