■ 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 — 12 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VIXM open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.
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 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 28.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18
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 18
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
—
3
0.0016
0.00
-0.00
-0.00
0.98
-0.00
9
0.0163
0.00
-0.00
-0.02
0.97
-0.00
10
0.0264
0.00
-0.00
-0.03
0.95
-0.00
11
0.0456
0.00
-0.00
-0.05
0.92
-0.00
12
0.0872
0.01
-0.00
-0.08
0.84
-0.00
13
0.1918
0.01
-0.00
-0.16
0.57
-0.01
14
0.3433
0.02
-0.01
-0.42
0.31
-0.01
15
0.2372
0.02
-0.01
-0.68
0.20
-0.01
16
0.1475
0.01
-0.01
-0.80
0.14
-0.01
17
0.0995
0.01
-0.01
-0.86
0.10
-0.01
18
0.0717
0.01
-0.01
-0.89
0.08
-0.01
19
0.0542
0.01
-0.00
-0.92
0.07
-0.01
20
0.0424
0.01
-0.00
-0.93
0.04
-0.00
23
0.0234
0.00
-0.00
-0.96
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 18 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.