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.
■ 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 · Thu, Jun 17
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NDSN 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
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 25.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17
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 · Thu, Jun 17
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.97
—
195
0.0006
0.16
-0.01
-0.03
0.97
—
200
0.0007
0.17
-0.01
-0.03
0.96
—
210
0.0009
0.22
-0.02
-0.04
0.72
-0.04
300
0.0049
0.86
-0.05
-0.29
0.67
-0.04
310
0.0054
0.93
-0.05
-0.34
0.16
-0.03
410
0.0039
0.63
-0.04
-0.95
0.10
-0.02
430
0.0030
0.48
-0.07
-1.00
0.09
-0.02
440
0.0025
0.41
-0.07
-1.00
0.07
-0.02
450
0.0021
0.35
-0.07
-1.00
0.06
-0.01
460
0.0018
0.30
-0.07
-1.00
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.
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.