SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 10:30 PM ET
How20 put contracts / 57 call contracts = 0.35 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Too thin to read: 77 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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: 77 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MFC open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.
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 · Thu, Jun 17
Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.90
-0.00
35
0.0181
0.06
-0.00
-0.11
0.86
-0.00
37
0.0243
0.08
-0.01
-0.16
0.83
-0.00
38
0.0277
0.09
-0.01
-0.18
0.80
-0.00
39
0.0313
0.10
-0.01
-0.21
0.77
-0.01
40
0.0349
0.10
-0.01
-0.25
0.69
-0.01
42
0.0419
0.12
-0.01
-0.33
0.56
-0.01
45
0.0491
0.14
-0.01
-0.47
0.51
-0.01
46
0.0502
0.14
-0.01
-0.52
0.36
-0.01
49
0.0485
0.13
-0.01
-0.67
0.32
-0.01
50
0.0465
0.12
-0.01
-0.71
0.15
-0.00
55
0.0309
0.08
-0.00
-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.