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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 31, 1:55 PM ET

ABVX max pain

Spot (delayed)$124.27
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$125+0.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.15±7.4% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI1.364K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$180largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3068.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$98Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $139

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$125+0.6%6d
Fri, Aug 14$125+0.6%13d
Fri, Aug 21$110-11.5%20d
Fri, Aug 28$100-19.5%27d
Fri, Sep 4$95-23.6%34d
Fri, Sep 18$120-3.4%48d
Fri, Oct 16$125+0.6%76d
Fri, Nov 20$75-39.6%111d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1255582109136163190$11M$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 — 125 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot12555951171271391751K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABVX open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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 7

spot125559511712713917544
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot5582109136163190241%54%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 65.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 1395595117127139175+$94K$94K
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 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.231150.02280.05-0.23-0.20
0.76-0.261170.02640.06-0.26-0.24
0.73-0.281180.02810.06-0.28-0.27
0.70-0.291190.02960.06-0.29-0.30
0.67-0.301200.03090.06-0.30-0.33
0.60-0.321220.03280.07-0.32-0.40
0.57-0.331230.03340.07-0.33-0.43
0.53-0.331240.03360.07-0.33-0.47
0.50-0.341250.03360.07-0.34-0.50
0.44-0.331270.03290.07-0.34-0.57
0.41-0.331280.03210.07-0.33-0.60
0.35-0.321300.03020.07-0.32-0.66
0.32-0.311310.02900.06-0.31-0.68
0.29-0.301320.02780.06-0.30-0.71
0.27-0.291330.02640.06-0.29-0.73

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 43 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot45911231341471757K0
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

spot357010013015518510K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 103K call contracts, 44K 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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