Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.2% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Event risk before this expiration: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.
Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.2% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPHR open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 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, Dec 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 57.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 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, Dec 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.97
-0.03
65
0.0022
0.03
-0.03
-0.04
0.92
-0.04
80
0.0056
0.06
-0.04
-0.08
0.89
-0.05
85
0.0076
0.08
-0.05
-0.12
0.84
-0.06
90
0.0099
0.10
-0.06
-0.16
0.78
-0.07
95
0.0124
0.12
-0.07
-0.23
0.71
-0.08
100
0.0147
0.14
-0.08
-0.30
0.62
-0.09
105
0.0164
0.15
-0.09
-0.38
0.54
-0.09
110
0.0174
0.16
-0.09
-0.47
0.45
-0.09
115
0.0174
0.16
-0.09
-0.55
0.37
-0.09
120
0.0167
0.15
-0.09
-0.64
0.30
-0.08
125
0.0154
0.14
-0.08
-0.71
0.24
-0.07
130
0.0137
0.13
-0.07
-0.77
0.19
-0.06
135
0.0118
0.11
-0.07
-0.82
0.15
-0.06
140
0.0101
0.10
-0.06
-0.86
0.11
-0.05
150
0.0074
0.07
-0.05
-0.91
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 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.
Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.
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.