■ 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 — 56 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VXZ 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 ≈ 38.0% · 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
0.89
-0.03
42
0.0205
0.03
-0.03
-0.11
0.87
-0.03
43
0.0236
0.03
-0.03
-0.13
0.86
-0.03
44
0.0274
0.04
-0.03
-0.14
0.84
-0.03
45
0.0322
0.04
-0.03
-0.16
0.79
-0.03
47
0.0448
0.05
-0.03
-0.21
0.75
-0.03
48
0.0529
0.05
-0.03
-0.25
0.69
-0.03
49
0.0614
0.06
-0.03
-0.30
0.63
-0.03
50
0.0683
0.06
-0.03
-0.37
0.56
-0.03
51
0.0713
0.06
-0.03
-0.44
0.49
-0.03
52
0.0697
0.06
-0.03
-0.51
0.38
-0.04
54
0.0594
0.06
-0.04
-0.62
0.33
-0.04
55
0.0537
0.06
-0.04
-0.66
0.30
-0.04
56
0.0484
0.06
-0.04
-0.70
0.27
-0.04
57
0.0437
0.05
-0.04
-0.73
0.24
-0.04
58
0.0396
0.05
-0.04
-0.75
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 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.