Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 2:05 PM ET

ACMR max pain

Spot (delayed)$81.9
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$60-26.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$37.1±45.3% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.556K puts / 12K calls
Call wall$100largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3085.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$207Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $10

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$74-9.6%6d
Fri, Aug 28$75-8.4%13d
Fri, Sep 4$84+2.6%20d
Fri, Sep 11$79-3.5%27d
Fri, Sep 18$90+9.9%34d
Fri, Sep 25$70-14.5%41d
Fri, Nov 20$65-20.6%97d
Fri, Jan 15$60-26.7%153d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot6033874109145180$131M$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot602.52547801051503K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ACMR open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot602.52547801051501010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot33874109145180343%88%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 89.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 107.53052.585115160+$153K$153K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.04550.00490.13-0.04-0.16
0.81-0.0457.50.00530.14-0.04-0.18
0.79-0.04600.00570.15-0.04-0.20
0.76-0.05650.00630.17-0.05-0.24
0.72-0.05700.00690.18-0.05-0.28
0.68-0.06750.00730.19-0.06-0.32
0.64-0.06800.00770.20-0.06-0.36
0.62-0.0682.50.00780.20-0.06-0.38
0.60-0.06850.00790.20-0.06-0.40
0.58-0.0687.50.00800.21-0.06-0.42
0.56-0.06900.00810.21-0.06-0.44
0.54-0.0692.50.00810.21-0.06-0.46
0.52-0.06950.00820.21-0.06-0.47
0.51-0.0697.50.00820.21-0.06-0.49
0.49-0.061000.00820.21-0.06-0.51

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 52 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot20466785981193K0
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

spot7.5325075961407K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 34K call contracts, 20K 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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