Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — 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 — 3.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NIO open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.
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, Oct 23
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 53.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23
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, Oct 23
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.00
0.5
0.0054
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
0.99
-0.00
1
0.0149
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.97
-0.00
1.5
0.0318
0.00
-0.00
-0.03
0.96
-0.00
2
0.0629
0.00
-0.00
-0.04
0.87
-0.00
3
0.2868
0.00
-0.00
-0.13
0.66
-0.00
3.5
0.6230
0.00
-0.00
-0.35
0.34
-0.00
4
0.6135
0.00
-0.00
-0.67
0.15
-0.00
4.5
0.3610
0.00
-0.00
-0.87
0.08
-0.00
5
0.2027
0.00
-0.00
-0.94
0.06
-0.00
5.5
0.1306
0.00
-0.00
-0.97
0.04
-0.00
6
0.0932
0.00
-0.00
-0.98
0.03
-0.00
7.5
0.0471
0.00
0.00
-0.99
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.