■ 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 — 119 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)USO open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.
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, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 48.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25
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, Sep 25
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.68
-0.09
123
0.0179
0.15
-0.09
-0.32
0.66
-0.09
124
0.0182
0.16
-0.09
-0.34
0.64
-0.10
125
0.0186
0.16
-0.10
-0.36
0.62
-0.10
126
0.0188
0.16
-0.10
-0.38
0.60
-0.10
127
0.0190
0.16
-0.10
-0.40
0.58
-0.10
128
0.0191
0.17
-0.10
-0.42
0.56
-0.10
129
0.0191
0.17
-0.10
-0.44
0.54
-0.10
130
0.0192
0.17
-0.10
-0.46
0.50
-0.11
132
0.0190
0.17
-0.11
-0.50
0.48
-0.11
133
0.0189
0.17
-0.11
-0.52
0.47
-0.11
134
0.0187
0.17
-0.11
-0.53
0.45
-0.11
135
0.0185
0.17
-0.11
-0.55
0.40
-0.11
138
0.0178
0.16
-0.11
-0.60
0.37
-0.11
140
0.0171
0.16
-0.11
-0.63
0.30
-0.10
145
0.0153
0.15
-0.10
-0.70
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 56 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.