■ 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 — 260 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IQV open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 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, Feb 19
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 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, Feb 19
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.89
-0.02
180
0.0027
0.33
-0.04
-0.12
0.87
-0.03
185
0.0030
0.37
-0.04
-0.13
0.85
-0.03
190
0.0034
0.40
-0.04
-0.15
0.83
-0.04
195
0.0037
0.44
-0.05
-0.17
0.81
-0.04
200
0.0040
0.47
-0.05
-0.20
0.76
-0.05
210
0.0046
0.54
-0.06
-0.25
0.65
-0.06
230
0.0055
0.64
-0.07
-0.36
0.59
-0.06
240
0.0058
0.67
-0.07
-0.42
0.54
-0.07
250
0.0060
0.68
-0.07
-0.48
0.48
-0.07
260
0.0061
0.68
-0.07
-0.55
0.42
-0.07
270
0.0060
0.67
-0.07
-0.61
0.37
-0.06
280
0.0058
0.65
-0.06
-0.67
0.28
-0.06
300
0.0052
0.57
-0.06
-0.77
0.24
-0.05
310
0.0048
0.53
-0.05
-0.82
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 23 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.