SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:58 PM ET
How6,002 put contracts / 3,932 call contracts = 1.53 for the 2026-12-18 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:58 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-12-18 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.1% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.1% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HNGE open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 18.
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, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 57.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 18
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, Dec 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.94
-0.03
90
0.0042
0.04
-0.04
-0.05
0.92
-0.04
95
0.0060
0.06
-0.05
-0.08
0.88
-0.06
100
0.0083
0.08
-0.06
-0.12
0.83
-0.07
105
0.0109
0.10
-0.07
-0.17
0.77
-0.09
110
0.0137
0.12
-0.09
-0.23
0.69
-0.10
115
0.0162
0.14
-0.10
-0.31
0.60
-0.11
120
0.0178
0.15
-0.11
-0.40
0.51
-0.11
125
0.0185
0.16
-0.11
-0.49
0.42
-0.11
130
0.0180
0.15
-0.11
-0.58
0.34
-0.10
135
0.0168
0.14
-0.10
-0.66
0.27
-0.09
140
0.0150
0.13
-0.09
-0.73
0.21
-0.08
145
0.0130
0.12
-0.08
-0.79
0.16
-0.07
150
0.0110
0.10
-0.07
-0.84
0.13
-0.06
155
0.0091
0.08
-0.06
-0.88
0.10
-0.05
160
0.0075
0.07
-0.05
-0.91
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.