SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
How28 put contracts / 66 call contracts = 0.42 for the 2026-12-04 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Too thin to read: 94 open contracts across 16 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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
Too thin to read: 94 open contracts across 16 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MSTU open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 4.
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 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 153.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Greeks by strike · Fri, Dec 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.69
-0.07
24
0.0279
0.03
-0.07
-0.31
0.66
-0.07
25
0.0293
0.03
-0.07
-0.34
0.60
-0.07
27
0.0315
0.03
-0.07
-0.40
0.57
-0.07
28
0.0323
0.03
-0.07
-0.44
0.54
-0.07
29
0.0327
0.03
-0.08
-0.47
0.51
-0.07
30
0.0330
0.03
-0.08
-0.50
0.48
-0.07
31
0.0330
0.03
-0.07
-0.53
0.42
-0.07
33
0.0325
0.03
-0.07
-0.59
0.39
-0.07
34
0.0320
0.03
-0.07
-0.61
0.37
-0.07
35
0.0314
0.03
-0.07
-0.64
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 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.