Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — 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 — 300 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)QQQM open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 25.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.91
-0.08
255
0.0055
0.13
-0.08
-0.09
0.89
-0.10
260
0.0068
0.16
-0.10
-0.12
0.85
-0.11
265
0.0085
0.18
-0.11
-0.15
0.82
-0.12
270
0.0105
0.22
-0.12
-0.19
0.77
-0.13
275
0.0128
0.25
-0.13
-0.24
0.70
-0.14
280
0.0153
0.28
-0.14
-0.30
0.63
-0.14
285
0.0178
0.30
-0.15
-0.38
0.53
-0.14
290
0.0198
0.32
-0.14
-0.47
0.43
-0.13
295
0.0207
0.32
-0.14
-0.58
0.32
-0.12
300
0.0199
0.29
-0.12
-0.69
0.22
-0.09
305
0.0173
0.24
-0.10
-0.80
0.14
-0.07
310
0.0135
0.19
-0.07
-0.89
0.09
-0.05
315
0.0096
0.13
-0.05
-0.95
0.05
-0.03
320
0.0063
0.09
-0.02
-0.98
0.03
-0.02
325
0.0040
0.06
-0.01
-1.00
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 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.