■ 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 — 200 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MATX open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.
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, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21
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, Aug 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.13
175
0.0020
0.01
-0.14
-0.02
0.97
-0.15
180
0.0027
0.01
-0.15
-0.03
0.97
-0.17
185
0.0035
0.02
-0.17
-0.03
0.96
-0.19
190
0.0048
0.02
-0.19
-0.04
0.94
-0.22
195
0.0066
0.03
-0.22
-0.06
0.92
-0.25
200
0.0095
0.03
-0.25
-0.08
0.83
-0.34
210
0.0225
0.06
-0.35
-0.17
0.52
-0.44
220
0.0479
0.09
-0.45
-0.48
0.20
-0.37
230
0.0256
0.06
-0.38
-0.81
0.10
-0.29
240
0.0122
0.04
-0.29
-0.91
0.06
-0.23
250
0.0069
0.03
-0.23
-0.94
0.04
-0.19
260
0.0044
0.02
-0.19
-0.96
0.01
-0.11
300
0.0013
0.01
-0.10
-0.99
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 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.