■ 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 — 90 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ROAD open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.
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, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 61.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18
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, Sep 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
-0.00
60
0.0012
0.01
-0.01
-0.01
0.96
-0.02
70
0.0032
0.03
-0.03
-0.04
0.90
-0.04
80
0.0069
0.06
-0.05
-0.10
0.86
-0.06
85
0.0094
0.08
-0.06
-0.14
0.80
-0.07
90
0.0120
0.10
-0.07
-0.20
0.73
-0.08
95
0.0146
0.12
-0.09
-0.28
0.65
-0.09
100
0.0168
0.14
-0.09
-0.36
0.56
-0.10
105
0.0181
0.14
-0.10
-0.45
0.47
-0.10
110
0.0185
0.14
-0.10
-0.54
0.38
-0.09
115
0.0179
0.14
-0.09
-0.63
0.30
-0.08
120
0.0165
0.13
-0.08
-0.71
0.23
-0.07
125
0.0145
0.11
-0.07
-0.78
0.18
-0.06
130
0.0123
0.10
-0.06
-0.84
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.
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.