SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:06 PM ET
How22 put contracts / 41 call contracts = 0.54 for the 2026-12-11 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Too thin to read: 63 open contracts across 14 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Too thin to read: 63 open contracts across 14 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 11
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MAGS open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 11.
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, Dec 11
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 11
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 27.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Greeks by strike · Fri, Dec 11
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.89
-0.02
60
0.0235
0.04
-0.02
-0.11
0.82
-0.03
63
0.0382
0.05
-0.03
-0.18
0.63
-0.04
67
0.0646
0.07
-0.04
-0.37
0.60
-0.04
67.5
0.0675
0.08
-0.04
-0.40
0.56
-0.04
68
0.0700
0.08
-0.04
-0.44
0.53
-0.04
68.5
0.0720
0.08
-0.04
-0.47
0.49
-0.04
69
0.0734
0.08
-0.04
-0.51
0.34
-0.03
71
0.0711
0.07
-0.03
-0.66
0.31
-0.03
71.5
0.0686
0.07
-0.03
-0.70
0.28
-0.03
72
0.0654
0.07
-0.03
-0.73
0.25
-0.03
72.5
0.0617
0.06
-0.03
-0.76
0.19
-0.02
73.5
0.0535
0.06
-0.02
-0.82
0.17
-0.02
74
0.0493
0.05
-0.02
-0.84
0.10
-0.01
76
0.0336
0.04
-0.01
-0.91
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.
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.