■ 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 — 310 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KRYS open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.
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, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18
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, Sep 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.95
-0.06
260
0.0018
0.10
-0.06
-0.04
0.94
-0.07
270
0.0024
0.11
-0.07
-0.05
0.93
-0.08
280
0.0034
0.14
-0.08
-0.07
0.89
-0.10
290
0.0048
0.19
-0.10
-0.11
0.83
-0.13
300
0.0066
0.26
-0.13
-0.17
0.76
-0.16
310
0.0085
0.32
-0.17
-0.24
0.66
-0.19
320
0.0100
0.38
-0.19
-0.34
0.55
-0.21
330
0.0108
0.41
-0.21
-0.45
0.45
-0.21
340
0.0107
0.41
-0.21
-0.56
0.35
-0.19
350
0.0100
0.38
-0.20
-0.66
0.26
-0.17
360
0.0087
0.34
-0.17
-0.74
0.19
-0.14
370
0.0072
0.28
-0.15
-0.81
0.14
-0.12
380
0.0058
0.23
-0.13
-0.86
0.11
-0.11
390
0.0046
0.20
-0.12
-0.90
0.09
-0.10
400
0.0037
0.17
-0.10
-0.92
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 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.