Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 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 — 7.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LCID open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 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, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 121.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 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, Sep 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.94
-0.01
4
0.0497
0.00
-0.01
-0.08
0.91
-0.01
4.5
0.0668
0.00
-0.01
-0.11
0.86
-0.01
5
0.0853
0.01
-0.01
-0.15
0.81
-0.01
5.5
0.1042
0.01
-0.01
-0.20
0.74
-0.01
6
0.1223
0.01
-0.01
-0.26
0.67
-0.02
6.5
0.1380
0.01
-0.01
-0.32
0.59
-0.02
7
0.1488
0.01
-0.01
-0.40
0.52
-0.02
7.5
0.1529
0.01
-0.01
-0.47
0.44
-0.01
8
0.1506
0.01
-0.01
-0.54
0.38
-0.01
8.5
0.1434
0.01
-0.01
-0.60
0.32
-0.01
9
0.1333
0.01
-0.01
-0.65
0.28
-0.01
9.5
0.1219
0.01
-0.01
-0.69
0.21
-0.01
10.5
0.0998
0.01
-0.01
-0.76
0.18
-0.01
11
0.0900
0.01
-0.01
-0.78
0.14
-0.01
12
0.0733
0.01
-0.01
-0.82
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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.