Event risk before this expiration:CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 — 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 — 30 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VKTX open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.
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, Oct 30
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30
— call IV— put IVQuoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30
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, Oct 30
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.97
-0.01
21
0.0135
0.01
-0.01
-0.03
0.96
-0.01
22
0.0203
0.01
-0.01
-0.04
0.93
-0.01
23
0.0299
0.01
-0.01
-0.07
0.90
-0.02
24
0.0427
0.01
-0.02
-0.10
0.84
-0.02
25
0.0583
0.02
-0.02
-0.16
0.77
-0.03
26
0.0749
0.02
-0.03
-0.23
0.69
-0.03
27
0.0889
0.02
-0.03
-0.32
0.59
-0.04
28
0.0970
0.03
-0.04
-0.41
0.49
-0.04
29
0.0978
0.03
-0.04
-0.51
0.40
-0.04
30
0.0925
0.03
-0.04
-0.60
0.33
-0.04
31
0.0835
0.03
-0.04
-0.68
0.26
-0.04
32
0.0731
0.02
-0.04
-0.74
0.21
-0.03
33
0.0628
0.02
-0.03
-0.79
0.17
-0.03
34
0.0535
0.02
-0.03
-0.83
0.14
-0.03
35
0.0454
0.02
-0.03
-0.86
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 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.