Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 5, 10:10 PM ET

ABNB max pain

Spot (delayed)$153.62
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$135-12.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$17.7±11.5% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.9113K puts / 14K calls
Call wall$160largest call OI
Put wall$125largest put OI
IV3044.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$3.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $150
Earnings · expectedWed, Aug 5usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$145-5.6%2d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Aug 5)
Fri, Aug 14$145-5.6%9d
Fri, Aug 21$141-8.2%16d
Fri, Aug 28$146-5.0%23d
Fri, Sep 4$147-4.3%30d
Fri, Sep 11$147-4.3%37d
Fri, Sep 18$135-12.1%44d
Fri, Oct 16$145-5.6%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1356090120150180210$72M$0
■ 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 — 135 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot13560851101351601853K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABNB 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

spot1356085110135160185135135
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot6090120150180210151%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 1506085110135160185+$1.1M$1.1M
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 ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.021200.00430.06-0.03-0.05
0.92-0.031250.00630.08-0.04-0.08
0.88-0.051300.00880.11-0.05-0.12
0.82-0.061350.01140.14-0.07-0.18
0.76-0.081400.01410.17-0.08-0.24
0.68-0.091450.01630.19-0.09-0.33
0.59-0.091500.01790.21-0.10-0.41
0.50-0.101550.01860.21-0.10-0.51
0.41-0.091600.01830.21-0.09-0.60
0.32-0.081650.01710.19-0.09-0.69
0.24-0.071700.01520.17-0.07-0.77
0.18-0.061750.01280.14-0.06-0.83
0.13-0.051800.01030.11-0.05-0.89
0.09-0.041850.00810.09-0.04-0.93
0.07-0.031900.00620.07-0.03-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80122133143157.5182.58K0
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.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot55115131143162.519516K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 108K call contracts, 99K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

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.

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