■ 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 — 27 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WOLF open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.
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 4
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 128.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4
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 4
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.83
-0.06
24
0.0256
0.02
-0.06
-0.17
0.80
-0.07
25
0.0288
0.02
-0.07
-0.21
0.76
-0.07
26
0.0316
0.02
-0.07
-0.24
0.72
-0.08
27
0.0342
0.03
-0.08
-0.28
0.68
-0.08
28
0.0364
0.03
-0.08
-0.32
0.64
-0.09
29
0.0381
0.03
-0.09
-0.36
0.60
-0.09
30
0.0393
0.03
-0.09
-0.40
0.56
-0.09
31
0.0401
0.03
-0.09
-0.44
0.52
-0.09
32
0.0404
0.03
-0.09
-0.48
0.49
-0.09
33
0.0403
0.03
-0.10
-0.52
0.45
-0.09
34
0.0399
0.03
-0.09
-0.56
0.41
-0.09
35
0.0391
0.03
-0.09
-0.59
0.38
-0.09
36
0.0381
0.03
-0.09
-0.62
0.35
-0.09
37
0.0369
0.03
-0.09
-0.65
0.32
-0.09
38
0.0355
0.03
-0.09
-0.68
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 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.