Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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.
■ 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 — 295 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)QQQM open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.
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 · Thu, Jun 17
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17
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 · Thu, Jun 17
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.79
-0.04
255
0.0044
0.67
-0.04
-0.21
0.77
-0.04
260
0.0048
0.71
-0.04
-0.24
0.75
-0.04
265
0.0052
0.75
-0.04
-0.27
0.72
-0.04
270
0.0056
0.79
-0.04
-0.29
0.69
-0.04
275
0.0060
0.82
-0.05
-0.32
0.66
-0.04
280
0.0063
0.85
-0.05
-0.36
0.63
-0.04
285
0.0067
0.88
-0.05
-0.39
0.60
-0.04
290
0.0070
0.90
-0.05
-0.43
0.56
-0.04
295
0.0072
0.92
-0.05
-0.47
0.53
-0.04
300
0.0075
0.93
-0.05
-0.51
0.49
-0.04
305
0.0076
0.93
-0.05
-0.55
0.45
-0.04
310
0.0077
0.92
-0.05
-0.60
0.41
-0.04
315
0.0077
0.91
-0.05
-0.65
0.38
-0.04
320
0.0076
0.89
-0.05
-0.69
0.34
-0.04
325
0.0074
0.86
-0.05
-0.74
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 50 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.