■ 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 — 8 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 28
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NVAX open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 28.
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, Aug 28
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 28
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 79.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 28
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, Aug 28
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.00
5
0.0178
0.00
-0.01
-0.01
0.98
-0.00
5.5
0.0275
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
0.97
-0.01
6
0.0439
0.00
-0.01
-0.03
0.95
-0.01
6.5
0.0732
0.00
-0.01
-0.05
0.92
-0.01
7
0.1273
0.00
-0.01
-0.09
0.85
-0.01
7.5
0.2245
0.00
-0.02
-0.16
0.71
-0.02
8
0.3594
0.00
-0.02
-0.29
0.51
-0.02
8.5
0.4230
0.01
-0.02
-0.50
0.32
-0.02
9
0.3568
0.01
-0.02
-0.68
0.20
-0.02
9.5
0.2585
0.00
-0.02
-0.80
0.13
-0.02
10
0.1805
0.00
-0.01
-0.87
0.09
-0.01
10.5
0.1262
0.00
-0.01
-0.92
0.06
-0.01
11
0.0896
0.00
-0.01
-0.94
0.04
-0.01
11.5
0.0646
0.00
-0.01
-0.96
0.03
-0.01
12
0.0474
0.00
-0.01
-0.98
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 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.