■ 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 — 741 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Thu, Aug 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPY open contracts per strike for Thu, Aug 6.
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 · Thu, Aug 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Aug 6
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 15.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Aug 6
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 · Thu, Aug 6
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.66
-0.41
734
0.0186
0.43
-0.41
-0.34
0.64
-0.41
735
0.0192
0.44
-0.41
-0.36
0.62
-0.41
736
0.0198
0.44
-0.42
-0.38
0.60
-0.41
737
0.0203
0.45
-0.42
-0.40
0.59
-0.41
738
0.0208
0.45
-0.42
-0.42
0.56
-0.41
739
0.0213
0.46
-0.42
-0.44
0.55
-0.41
740
0.0217
0.46
-0.42
-0.46
0.52
-0.41
741
0.0221
0.46
-0.41
-0.48
0.50
-0.40
742
0.0224
0.47
-0.41
-0.51
0.48
-0.40
743
0.0227
0.46
-0.40
-0.53
0.46
-0.39
744
0.0229
0.46
-0.40
-0.55
0.43
-0.38
745
0.0231
0.46
-0.39
-0.58
0.33
-0.33
749
0.0227
0.42
-0.34
-0.68
0.31
-0.31
750
0.0223
0.41
-0.32
-0.71
0.26
-0.27
752
0.0212
0.38
-0.29
-0.76
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 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 history
History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.
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.