SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:47 PM ET
How317 put contracts / 373 call contracts = 0.85 for the 2028-01-21 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:47 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2028-01-21 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration: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.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PS open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 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, Jan 21
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 21
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 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, Jan 21
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.01
17.5
0.0018
0.05
-0.00
-0.05
0.98
-0.01
20
0.0084
0.01
-0.00
-0.07
0.95
-0.01
22.5
0.0112
0.04
-0.01
-0.09
0.91
-0.01
25
0.0123
0.06
-0.01
-0.12
0.82
-0.01
30
0.0147
0.10
-0.01
-0.18
0.72
-0.01
35
0.0163
0.14
-0.01
-0.25
0.62
-0.01
40
0.0170
0.16
-0.01
-0.33
0.53
-0.01
45
0.0169
0.17
-0.01
-0.40
0.46
-0.01
50
0.0162
0.18
-0.01
-0.46
0.39
-0.01
55
0.0152
0.17
-0.01
-0.52
0.34
-0.01
60
0.0142
0.17
-0.01
-0.57
0.30
-0.01
65
0.0131
0.16
-0.01
-0.61
0.26
-0.01
70
0.0120
0.15
-0.01
-0.64
0.23
-0.01
75
0.0111
0.14
-0.01
-0.67
0.19
-0.01
85
0.0095
0.13
-0.00
-0.72
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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.