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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, Sep 18$120-3.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$24.7±19.9% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.252K puts / 6K calls
Call wall$150largest call OI
Put wall$100largest put OI
IV3068.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$769Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $140

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$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

spot1207098126154182210$36M$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 — 120 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot12070951201451702002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABVX 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

spot120709512014517020022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot7098126154182210115%65%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 67.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 1407095120145170200+$274K$274K
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
0.92-0.05900.00470.07-0.05-0.09
0.88-0.07950.00610.09-0.07-0.12
0.84-0.081000.00750.11-0.08-0.16
0.80-0.091050.00900.13-0.09-0.21
0.74-0.101100.01040.15-0.10-0.26
0.68-0.111150.01150.16-0.11-0.32
0.62-0.121200.01230.17-0.12-0.39
0.56-0.131250.01270.18-0.13-0.45
0.49-0.131300.01270.18-0.13-0.51
0.44-0.131350.01250.18-0.13-0.57
0.38-0.121400.01200.17-0.13-0.63
0.33-0.121450.01140.17-0.12-0.68
0.29-0.111500.01060.16-0.12-0.72
0.25-0.101550.00980.15-0.11-0.76
0.22-0.101600.00890.13-0.10-0.80

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 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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