Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
■ 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 — 140 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NBIX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.93
-0.06
115
0.0052
0.05
-0.07
-0.07
0.91
-0.08
120
0.0072
0.06
-0.08
-0.09
0.87
-0.09
125
0.0097
0.08
-0.09
-0.13
0.82
-0.11
130
0.0129
0.10
-0.11
-0.18
0.75
-0.12
135
0.0166
0.12
-0.13
-0.25
0.66
-0.14
140
0.0202
0.14
-0.14
-0.34
0.55
-0.14
145
0.0226
0.15
-0.14
-0.45
0.44
-0.14
150
0.0229
0.15
-0.14
-0.56
0.33
-0.13
155
0.0210
0.14
-0.13
-0.67
0.25
-0.12
160
0.0178
0.12
-0.12
-0.75
0.19
-0.10
165
0.0145
0.10
-0.10
-0.82
0.14
-0.09
170
0.0116
0.08
-0.09
-0.86
0.11
-0.07
175
0.0092
0.07
-0.07
-0.90
0.08
-0.06
180
0.0073
0.06
-0.06
-0.92
0.07
-0.06
185
0.0059
0.05
-0.05
-0.94
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 24 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.