■ 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 — 4 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)USAS 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 ≈ 104.9% · 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
0.98
-0.00
1
0.0104
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.94
-0.00
2
0.0289
0.00
-0.00
-0.05
0.88
-0.00
3
0.0621
0.01
-0.00
-0.11
0.77
-0.00
4
0.1107
0.01
-0.00
-0.22
0.62
-0.01
5
0.1495
0.01
-0.01
-0.37
0.48
-0.01
6
0.1539
0.01
-0.01
-0.51
0.37
-0.01
7
0.1390
0.01
-0.01
-0.61
0.30
-0.01
8
0.1211
0.01
-0.01
-0.69
0.25
-0.01
9
0.1051
0.01
-0.01
-0.74
0.21
-0.00
10
0.0919
0.01
-0.01
-0.78
0.18
-0.00
11
0.0810
0.01
-0.00
-0.81
0.16
-0.00
12
0.0721
0.01
-0.00
-0.83
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 14 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.