■ 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 — 22 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ZSL open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.
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 25
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 88.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25
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 25
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.66
-0.03
22
0.0489
0.03
-0.03
-0.34
0.55
-0.04
24
0.0525
0.03
-0.03
-0.44
0.52
-0.04
24.5
0.0528
0.03
-0.03
-0.46
0.45
-0.04
26
0.0519
0.03
-0.03
-0.53
0.32
-0.03
29
0.0457
0.03
-0.03
-0.66
0.31
-0.03
29.5
0.0444
0.03
-0.03
-0.67
0.26
-0.03
31
0.0403
0.03
-0.03
-0.72
0.25
-0.03
31.5
0.0389
0.03
-0.03
-0.73
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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.