Event risk before this expiration: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 — 27 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TRN 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 ≈ 46.6% · 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
0.93
-0.01
20
0.0301
0.01
-0.01
-0.07
0.90
-0.01
21
0.0416
0.01
-0.02
-0.10
0.86
-0.02
22
0.0578
0.01
-0.02
-0.14
0.80
-0.02
23
0.0799
0.02
-0.02
-0.20
0.72
-0.02
24
0.1070
0.02
-0.02
-0.28
0.60
-0.02
25
0.1320
0.03
-0.02
-0.40
0.46
-0.02
26
0.1403
0.03
-0.02
-0.54
0.34
-0.02
27
0.1264
0.02
-0.02
-0.66
0.24
-0.02
28
0.1027
0.02
-0.02
-0.76
0.18
-0.02
29
0.0803
0.02
-0.02
-0.82
0.14
-0.02
30
0.0626
0.01
-0.02
-0.86
0.11
-0.01
31
0.0494
0.01
-0.01
-0.90
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.