Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — 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 — 112 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HOOD open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.
Open-interest change · 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-11
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 110 +103 · 114 +85 · 112 +72 · 120 +59
Volume by strike · Fri, Oct 23
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23
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, Oct 23
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.68
-0.10
105
0.0154
0.14
-0.10
-0.32
0.66
-0.10
106
0.0157
0.14
-0.10
-0.34
0.65
-0.10
107
0.0160
0.14
-0.10
-0.36
0.63
-0.10
108
0.0162
0.14
-0.10
-0.37
0.61
-0.11
109
0.0164
0.15
-0.11
-0.39
0.59
-0.11
110
0.0166
0.15
-0.11
-0.41
0.58
-0.11
111
0.0168
0.15
-0.11
-0.42
0.56
-0.11
112
0.0169
0.15
-0.11
-0.44
0.54
-0.11
113
0.0170
0.15
-0.11
-0.46
0.53
-0.11
114
0.0170
0.15
-0.11
-0.48
0.51
-0.11
115
0.0170
0.15
-0.11
-0.49
0.49
-0.11
116
0.0170
0.15
-0.11
-0.51
0.48
-0.11
117
0.0170
0.15
-0.11
-0.53
0.46
-0.11
118
0.0169
0.15
-0.11
-0.54
0.45
-0.11
119
0.0168
0.15
-0.11
-0.56
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 57 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 history — nearest expiry vs price
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.
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.