■ 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 — 545 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LMT 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 ≈ 26.2% · 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
0.79
-0.17
545
0.0059
0.57
-0.18
-0.23
0.76
-0.18
550
0.0064
0.62
-0.20
-0.26
0.72
-0.20
555
0.0068
0.67
-0.21
-0.30
0.69
-0.21
560
0.0071
0.70
-0.22
-0.33
0.65
-0.22
565
0.0074
0.74
-0.23
-0.37
0.61
-0.23
570
0.0076
0.76
-0.23
-0.41
0.57
-0.23
575
0.0077
0.78
-0.23
-0.45
0.53
-0.24
580
0.0078
0.79
-0.24
-0.48
0.49
-0.24
585
0.0078
0.79
-0.24
-0.52
0.46
-0.24
590
0.0077
0.79
-0.23
-0.56
0.38
-0.23
600
0.0073
0.76
-0.22
-0.63
0.35
-0.23
605
0.0070
0.74
-0.21
-0.67
0.32
-0.22
610
0.0067
0.71
-0.20
-0.70
0.29
-0.21
615
0.0064
0.68
-0.19
-0.73
0.26
-0.20
620
0.0060
0.65
-0.18
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 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.