TrendMoney has had an NSE option chain for Indian stocks for a while — open interest, put/call ratio (PCR) and Max Pain for Nifty and individual equities. That data simply didn't exist for US stocks on the platform. It does now.
Open the detail view for any US stock and you'll find a new Options / Open Interest section with the live options chain, a put/call ratio reading, the Max Pain strike, and — if you want it — an AI-generated explanation of what the positioning implies.
What's in it
- Expiry picker. US options don't have one expiry — most liquid names list Monday, Wednesday and Friday weeklies near-term, then standard Fridays further out, then monthly LEAPS. Pick any listed expiry and the section refetches for that date.
- Put/Call Ratio. The ratio of open put contracts to open call contracts. A ratio above 1 means more puts are open than calls — typically read as bearish positioning. Below 0.7 means calls dominate — typically bullish. We put a plain-English tooltip on this, because "put/call ratio" isn't self-explanatory if you don't trade options regularly.
- Max Pain. The strike price at which the largest number of options — calls and puts combined — would expire worthless, meaning option buyers as a group would lose the most money there. Some traders watch it because price has a mild statistical tendency to drift toward it into expiration. It's a data point, not a prediction, and we say so in the tooltip.
- Open interest by strike. The top strikes ranked by combined open interest, shown as a call/put split so you can see where positioning is concentrated.
The AI Sentiment Read
Below the raw numbers is a Get AI Sentiment Read button. We made this opt-in rather than automatic: generating it costs a model call, and most people opening a stock's detail view just want the numbers, not a paragraph of prose every time. Click it and it reads the put/call ratio, Max Pain, and the open-interest distribution across strikes, then returns:
- A plain-English summary of what the positioning suggests
- A directional lean — bullish, bearish or neutral
- A note on any strike with unusually high volume relative to its resting open interest, which can flag fresh positioning rather than existing holders adjusting
This is a sentiment read, not investment advice. It doesn't suggest trades, price targets, or entry and exit points, and the prompt behind it is explicitly instructed not to. If the AI service is unavailable, a deterministic fallback built from the same numbers takes over automatically, so the section never just breaks.
Where to find it
Search or open any US stock (NASDAQ, NYSE) and expand the Options / Open Interest accordion in the detail view. Like Insider Activity, Whale Analysis and the US Scanner, this is a signed-in feature — it sits behind the same account gate as the rest of TrendMoney's deeper market analysis.
If a stock has no listed options, the section simply doesn't appear rather than showing an empty state or an error.
A note on interpretation
Put/call ratio and Max Pain are widely-used, well-established readings of options positioning — but they're descriptive, not predictive. They tell you where the market's option writers and buyers currently stand, not where the stock is going. Nothing in this section, AI-generated or otherwise, is financial advice — the same disclaimer that applies across TrendMoney's markets tools applies here too.
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