Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 — 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 — 250 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RCL open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.
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, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30
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, Oct 30
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.79
-0.28
257.5
0.0084
0.17
-0.29
-0.21
0.77
-0.30
260
0.0090
0.18
-0.30
-0.23
0.72
-0.34
265
0.0100
0.20
-0.34
-0.28
0.66
-0.36
270
0.0108
0.22
-0.37
-0.34
0.61
-0.38
275
0.0114
0.23
-0.39
-0.39
0.58
-0.39
277.5
0.0116
0.24
-0.39
-0.42
0.55
-0.39
280
0.0118
0.24
-0.40
-0.45
0.52
-0.40
282.5
0.0119
0.24
-0.40
-0.48
0.49
-0.40
285
0.0119
0.24
-0.40
-0.51
0.46
-0.39
287.5
0.0119
0.24
-0.40
-0.54
0.43
-0.39
290
0.0118
0.24
-0.39
-0.57
0.40
-0.38
292.5
0.0116
0.23
-0.38
-0.60
0.38
-0.37
295
0.0114
0.23
-0.37
-0.63
0.35
-0.36
297.5
0.0112
0.23
-0.36
-0.66
0.32
-0.35
300
0.0108
0.22
-0.35
-0.68
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 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.