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 — 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 — 305 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)INTU open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 4.
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 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 53.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 4
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 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.75
-0.24
310
0.0050
0.37
-0.24
-0.25
0.72
-0.25
315
0.0053
0.39
-0.25
-0.28
0.70
-0.26
320
0.0056
0.41
-0.26
-0.31
0.67
-0.27
325
0.0058
0.42
-0.27
-0.34
0.64
-0.28
330
0.0060
0.44
-0.28
-0.37
0.60
-0.28
335
0.0062
0.45
-0.29
-0.40
0.57
-0.29
340
0.0064
0.46
-0.29
-0.43
0.54
-0.29
345
0.0065
0.46
-0.29
-0.47
0.51
-0.29
350
0.0065
0.47
-0.30
-0.50
0.48
-0.29
355
0.0065
0.47
-0.29
-0.53
0.45
-0.29
360
0.0065
0.46
-0.29
-0.56
0.41
-0.28
365
0.0064
0.46
-0.29
-0.59
0.38
-0.28
370
0.0063
0.45
-0.28
-0.63
0.33
-0.26
380
0.0059
0.42
-0.27
-0.68
0.25
-0.23
395
0.0053
0.37
-0.24
-0.76
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 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.