Event risk before this expiration: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 — 150 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VST 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 ≈ 56.8% · 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
0.96
-0.04
105
0.0036
0.03
-0.04
-0.04
0.94
-0.06
110
0.0056
0.04
-0.06
-0.06
0.90
-0.08
115
0.0083
0.06
-0.08
-0.10
0.85
-0.11
120
0.0116
0.08
-0.11
-0.15
0.78
-0.14
125
0.0151
0.10
-0.14
-0.22
0.69
-0.16
130
0.0184
0.12
-0.16
-0.31
0.59
-0.17
135
0.0206
0.13
-0.17
-0.41
0.49
-0.18
140
0.0214
0.13
-0.18
-0.52
0.47
-0.17
141
0.0214
0.13
-0.18
-0.54
0.45
-0.17
142
0.0213
0.13
-0.18
-0.56
0.43
-0.17
143
0.0211
0.13
-0.17
-0.58
0.41
-0.17
144
0.0209
0.13
-0.17
-0.60
0.39
-0.17
145
0.0206
0.13
-0.17
-0.62
0.37
-0.17
146
0.0203
0.13
-0.17
-0.64
0.35
-0.16
147
0.0199
0.12
-0.16
-0.66
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 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.