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 — 55 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SLV 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 ≈ 33.3% · 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
0.87
-0.02
47
0.0397
0.03
-0.02
-0.13
0.82
-0.02
48
0.0491
0.04
-0.02
-0.18
0.77
-0.03
49
0.0589
0.05
-0.03
-0.23
0.74
-0.03
49.5
0.0636
0.05
-0.03
-0.26
0.71
-0.03
50
0.0679
0.05
-0.03
-0.30
0.63
-0.03
51
0.0749
0.06
-0.03
-0.37
0.59
-0.03
51.5
0.0772
0.06
-0.03
-0.41
0.56
-0.03
52
0.0788
0.06
-0.03
-0.45
0.48
-0.03
53
0.0792
0.06
-0.03
-0.53
0.44
-0.03
53.5
0.0782
0.06
-0.03
-0.57
0.40
-0.03
54
0.0764
0.06
-0.03
-0.60
0.33
-0.03
55
0.0712
0.06
-0.03
-0.68
0.27
-0.03
56
0.0642
0.05
-0.03
-0.74
0.22
-0.03
57
0.0563
0.04
-0.03
-0.79
0.17
-0.02
58
0.0484
0.04
-0.02
-0.84
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 48 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.