■ 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 — 15.5 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PPLT open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.
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 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21
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 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
0.00
12
0.0108
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
0.99
-0.00
12.5
0.0194
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
0.98
-0.00
13
0.0356
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.96
-0.01
13.5
0.0659
0.00
-0.01
-0.04
0.93
-0.01
14
0.1214
0.00
-0.01
-0.07
0.86
-0.01
14.5
0.2168
0.01
-0.01
-0.14
0.73
-0.02
15
0.3502
0.01
-0.02
-0.27
0.53
-0.02
15.5
0.4506
0.01
-0.02
-0.47
0.31
-0.02
16
0.4069
0.01
-0.02
-0.69
0.16
-0.01
16.5
0.2675
0.01
-0.01
-0.84
0.08
-0.01
17
0.1506
0.00
-0.01
-0.93
0.04
-0.01
17.5
0.0818
0.00
-0.00
-0.96
0.02
-0.00
18
0.0452
0.00
-0.00
-0.98
0.02
-0.00
18.1
0.0403
0.00
-0.00
-0.98
0.02
-0.00
18.2
0.0360
0.00
-0.00
-0.99
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 44 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.