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 — 230 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, May 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JBHT open contracts per strike for Fri, May 21.
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, May 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, May 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 34.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, May 21
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, May 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.88
-0.02
175
0.0031
0.35
-0.03
-0.12
0.86
-0.02
180
0.0035
0.39
-0.03
-0.14
0.84
-0.03
185
0.0039
0.43
-0.04
-0.16
0.79
-0.04
195
0.0047
0.50
-0.04
-0.21
0.77
-0.04
200
0.0050
0.54
-0.04
-0.24
0.71
-0.04
210
0.0057
0.60
-0.05
-0.30
0.65
-0.05
220
0.0062
0.65
-0.05
-0.37
0.58
-0.05
230
0.0066
0.68
-0.06
-0.44
0.51
-0.05
240
0.0068
0.69
-0.06
-0.51
0.45
-0.05
250
0.0068
0.69
-0.05
-0.58
0.39
-0.05
260
0.0067
0.67
-0.05
-0.65
0.33
-0.05
270
0.0064
0.63
-0.05
-0.71
0.28
-0.04
280
0.0059
0.58
-0.05
-0.78
0.06
-0.01
350
0.0022
0.22
-0.04
-1.00
0.05
-0.01
360
0.0018
0.18
-0.04
-1.00
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 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.