Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 — 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 — 12 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 14
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)XNDU open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 14.
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, Aug 14
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 14
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 166.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 14
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, Aug 14
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
-0.01
1
0.0011
0.00
-0.01
-0.00
0.99
-0.01
2
0.0026
0.00
-0.01
-0.01
0.99
-0.01
3
0.0048
0.00
-0.01
-0.01
0.82
-0.04
9
0.0820
0.01
-0.04
-0.17
0.72
-0.04
10
0.1182
0.01
-0.04
-0.28
0.66
-0.05
10.5
0.1345
0.01
-0.04
-0.34
0.58
-0.05
11
0.1453
0.01
-0.05
-0.41
0.51
-0.05
11.5
0.1486
0.01
-0.05
-0.49
0.44
-0.05
12
0.1450
0.01
-0.05
-0.56
0.38
-0.05
12.5
0.1366
0.01
-0.05
-0.61
0.33
-0.05
13
0.1260
0.01
-0.05
-0.67
0.29
-0.04
13.5
0.1148
0.01
-0.04
-0.71
0.25
-0.04
14
0.1040
0.01
-0.04
-0.74
0.20
-0.04
15
0.0850
0.01
-0.04
-0.80
0.16
-0.04
16
0.0700
0.01
-0.04
-0.84
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 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.