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.
■ 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 — 28 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UUP open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.
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, Jan 15
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 6.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15
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, Jan 15
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
—
22
0.0023
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
1.00
—
23
0.0035
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.99
—
24
0.0053
0.00
-0.00
-0.03
0.99
—
25
0.0087
0.00
-0.00
-0.05
0.99
—
26
0.0155
0.00
-0.00
-0.08
0.99
—
27
0.0328
0.01
-0.00
-0.14
0.96
—
28
0.1194
0.01
-0.00
-0.37
0.58
-0.00
29
0.4973
0.04
-0.00
-0.79
0.24
-0.00
30
0.2702
0.04
-0.00
-0.90
0.12
-0.00
31
0.1325
0.03
0.00
-0.94
0.07
-0.00
32
0.0741
0.02
—
-0.95
0.05
-0.00
33
0.0464
0.01
—
-0.96
0.04
-0.00
34
0.0318
0.01
—
-0.97
0.03
-0.00
35
0.0233
0.01
—
-0.98
0.02
-0.00
36
0.0178
0.01
—
-0.98
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 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.