Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 21, 1:41 AM ET

ABNB max pain

Spot (delayed)$166.22
Max pain · Fri, Oct 2$162.5-2.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.62±5.2% by Fri, Oct 2
Put/Call OI0.671K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$135largest call OI
Put wall$155largest put OI
IV3030.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$390Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $105
Earnings · expectedThu, Nov 5usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 25$170+2.3%4d
Fri, Oct 2$162.5-2.2%11d
Fri, Oct 9$170+2.3%18d
Fri, Oct 16$165-0.7%25d
Fri, Oct 23$175+5.3%32d
Fri, Oct 30$167.5+0.8%39d
Fri, Nov 20$180+8.3%60d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Nov 5)
Fri, Dec 18$135-18.8%88d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot162.595121147173199225$9M$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 — 162.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spot162.595130155172.5190207.5600600
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABNB open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 2.

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, Oct 2

spot162.595130155172.5190207.53838
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spot100125150175200225119%25%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spotflip 10595130155172.5190207.5+$136K$136K
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, Oct 2

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.061490.01050.04-0.06-0.07
0.93-0.061500.01160.05-0.06-0.08
0.90-0.07152.50.01500.06-0.07-0.10
0.87-0.081550.01970.07-0.08-0.13
0.82-0.10157.50.02540.09-0.10-0.19
0.75-0.121600.03120.10-0.12-0.26
0.66-0.13162.50.03630.12-0.13-0.34
0.57-0.141650.03950.13-0.14-0.44
0.47-0.14167.50.04020.13-0.14-0.54
0.37-0.131700.03840.12-0.14-0.64
0.28-0.12172.50.03430.11-0.12-0.73
0.21-0.101750.02890.09-0.10-0.80
0.15-0.08177.50.02320.08-0.09-0.86
0.11-0.071800.01810.06-0.07-0.90
0.08-0.06182.50.01420.05-0.06-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80125145170192.5217.56000
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

spot55110142157.5185212.511K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 95K call contracts, 103K 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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