SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:08 PM ET
How346 put contracts / 187 call contracts = 1.85 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:08 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LII open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.96
-0.17
280
0.0019
0.06
-0.18
-0.04
0.94
-0.21
290
0.0027
0.07
-0.22
-0.06
0.92
-0.26
300
0.0037
0.09
-0.26
-0.08
0.89
-0.31
310
0.0052
0.12
-0.31
-0.11
0.84
-0.37
320
0.0074
0.15
-0.37
-0.16
0.76
-0.43
330
0.0101
0.19
-0.43
-0.24
0.65
-0.48
340
0.0130
0.22
-0.48
-0.35
0.51
-0.49
350
0.0148
0.24
-0.49
-0.48
0.37
-0.46
360
0.0141
0.23
-0.46
-0.63
0.25
-0.40
370
0.0116
0.20
-0.40
-0.75
0.17
-0.34
380
0.0087
0.16
-0.34
-0.83
0.12
-0.28
390
0.0064
0.12
-0.28
-0.88
0.09
-0.23
400
0.0048
0.10
-0.23
-0.91
0.07
-0.20
410
0.0036
0.08
-0.19
-0.93
0.05
-0.17
420
0.0028
0.06
-0.16
-0.95
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 16 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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.