Event risk before this expiration:FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 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 — 42 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VNOM open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.
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, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.98
-0.01
40
0.0224
0.01
-0.01
-0.06
0.95
-0.01
41
0.0312
0.01
-0.01
-0.09
0.92
-0.02
42
0.0439
0.02
-0.02
-0.13
0.87
-0.02
43
0.0590
0.03
-0.02
-0.18
0.80
-0.03
44
0.0759
0.03
-0.03
-0.25
0.72
-0.03
45
0.0922
0.04
-0.03
-0.33
0.62
-0.03
46
0.1040
0.04
-0.03
-0.42
0.51
-0.04
47
0.1088
0.05
-0.03
-0.52
0.41
-0.03
48
0.1051
0.05
-0.03
-0.62
0.31
-0.03
49
0.0944
0.04
-0.03
-0.71
0.23
-0.02
50
0.0794
0.04
-0.02
-0.78
0.04
-0.01
55
0.0191
0.01
-0.01
-0.96
0.01
-0.00
60
0.0036
0.00
—
-0.99
0.00
0.00
65
0.0007
0.00
—
-0.99
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 23 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.