Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 — 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, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PEP open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 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, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 24.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4
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, Sep 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.78
-0.04
132
0.0279
0.13
-0.05
-0.26
0.75
-0.05
133
0.0300
0.13
-0.05
-0.29
0.72
-0.05
134
0.0321
0.15
-0.05
-0.33
0.69
-0.05
135
0.0339
0.15
-0.06
-0.36
0.65
-0.06
136
0.0355
0.16
-0.06
-0.40
0.62
-0.06
137
0.0367
0.16
-0.06
-0.44
0.58
-0.06
138
0.0377
0.17
-0.06
-0.47
0.54
-0.06
139
0.0382
0.17
-0.06
-0.51
0.50
-0.06
140
0.0384
0.17
-0.06
-0.55
0.47
-0.06
141
0.0382
0.17
-0.06
-0.59
0.43
-0.06
142
0.0376
0.17
-0.06
-0.62
0.39
-0.06
143
0.0368
0.17
-0.06
-0.66
0.36
-0.06
144
0.0356
0.16
-0.05
-0.69
0.33
-0.06
145
0.0342
0.16
-0.05
-0.72
0.29
-0.05
146
0.0326
0.14
-0.05
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 36 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.