Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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.
■ 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 — 90 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Mar 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IEF 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 ≈ 7.6% · 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
0.94
-0.00
84
0.0254
0.08
-0.00
-0.07
0.91
-0.00
85
0.0336
0.10
-0.00
-0.10
0.88
-0.00
86
0.0438
0.12
-0.00
-0.14
0.83
-0.00
87
0.0557
0.15
-0.00
-0.18
0.78
-0.01
88
0.0683
0.17
-0.01
-0.24
0.70
-0.01
89
0.0801
0.20
-0.01
-0.32
0.62
-0.01
90
0.0890
0.22
-0.01
-0.41
0.53
-0.01
91
0.0930
0.23
-0.01
-0.50
0.44
-0.01
92
0.0912
0.22
-0.01
-0.59
0.36
-0.01
93
0.0845
0.21
-0.01
-0.68
0.28
-0.01
94
0.0751
0.20
-0.01
-0.76
0.22
-0.01
95
0.0646
0.17
-0.01
-0.82
0.17
-0.00
96
0.0541
0.15
-0.00
-0.87
0.13
-0.00
97
0.0444
0.13
-0.00
-0.91
0.10
-0.00
98
0.0361
0.11
-0.00
-0.93
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 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.