Event risk before this expiration: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 — 87.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KO open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.
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, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16
— call IV— put IVQuoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16
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 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.00
70
0.0023
0.01
-0.00
-0.01
0.99
-0.00
72.5
0.0034
0.01
-0.00
-0.01
0.99
-0.00
75
0.0054
0.01
-0.00
-0.01
0.98
-0.01
77.5
0.0092
0.01
-0.01
-0.02
0.96
-0.01
80
0.0176
0.02
-0.01
-0.04
0.90
-0.01
82.5
0.0355
0.04
-0.01
-0.10
0.79
-0.02
85
0.0643
0.07
-0.02
-0.21
0.60
-0.03
87.5
0.0914
0.10
-0.03
-0.41
0.36
-0.03
90
0.0910
0.09
-0.03
-0.65
0.18
-0.02
92.5
0.0624
0.07
-0.02
-0.85
0.08
-0.01
95
0.0336
0.04
-0.01
-0.96
0.03
-0.01
97.5
0.0160
0.02
-0.00
-0.99
0.02
-0.00
100
0.0081
0.01
0.00
-1.00
0.01
-0.00
105
0.0037
0.01
—
-1.00
0.01
-0.00
110
0.0024
0.01
—
-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 24 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.