■ 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 — 20 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Wed, Aug 26
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VIX open contracts per strike for Wed, Aug 26.
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 · Wed, Aug 26
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Aug 26
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 106.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Aug 26
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 · Wed, Aug 26
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.99
0.00
10.5
0.0026
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
0.98
-0.00
13
0.0085
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.96
-0.01
14
0.0137
0.00
-0.01
-0.03
0.95
-0.01
14.5
0.0174
0.01
-0.01
-0.04
0.94
-0.01
15
0.0220
0.01
-0.01
-0.06
0.90
-0.01
16
0.0329
0.01
-0.02
-0.10
0.84
-0.02
17
0.0437
0.01
-0.02
-0.15
0.78
-0.03
18
0.0530
0.02
-0.03
-0.21
0.72
-0.03
19
0.0614
0.02
-0.03
-0.28
0.65
-0.04
20
0.0688
0.02
-0.04
-0.35
0.57
-0.04
21
0.0700
0.02
-0.04
-0.42
0.51
-0.04
22
0.0662
0.02
-0.04
-0.48
0.46
-0.04
23
0.0612
0.02
-0.04
-0.54
0.42
-0.05
24
0.0564
0.02
-0.05
-0.58
0.39
-0.05
25
0.0521
0.02
-0.05
-0.61
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 41 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.