■ 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 — 10 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SBSW open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.
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 16
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16
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 16
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
-0.01
5
0.0074
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
1.00
-0.01
6
0.0161
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
1.00
-0.01
7
0.0053
0.01
-0.00
-0.05
0.94
-0.01
8
0.0873
0.00
-0.00
-0.10
0.83
-0.01
9
0.1231
0.01
-0.01
-0.20
0.67
-0.01
10
0.1518
0.01
-0.01
-0.33
0.51
-0.01
11
0.1577
0.02
-0.01
-0.48
0.37
-0.01
12
0.1421
0.02
-0.01
-0.61
0.26
-0.01
13
0.1174
0.01
-0.01
-0.71
0.19
-0.01
14
0.0931
0.01
-0.01
-0.78
0.14
-0.01
15
0.0727
0.01
-0.01
-0.83
0.10
-0.00
16
0.0566
0.01
-0.00
-0.87
0.08
-0.00
17
0.0444
0.01
-0.00
-0.89
0.06
-0.00
18
0.0350
0.01
-0.00
-0.91
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 22 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.