Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 5, 10:49 PM ET

ADBE max pain

Spot (delayed)$250.75
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$230-8.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$47.53±19.0% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.5710K puts / 17K calls
Call wall$240largest call OI
Put wall$170largest put OI
IV3049.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$3.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $245
Earnings · expectedThu, Sep 10usually 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 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$245-2.3%2d
Fri, Aug 14$240-4.3%9d
Fri, Aug 21$225-10.3%16d
Fri, Aug 28$230-8.3%23d
Fri, Sep 4$240-4.3%30d
Fri, Sep 11$260+3.7%37d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Sep 10)
Fri, Sep 18$240-4.3%44d
Fri, Oct 16$230-8.3%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot230115174233292351410$200M$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 — 230 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot2301151652152653153652K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ADBE open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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 16

spot230115165215265315365791791
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot11517423329235141087%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 51.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 245115165215265315365+$492K$492K
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 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.102150.00420.29-0.11-0.17
0.80-0.112200.00460.32-0.12-0.20
0.78-0.122250.00500.34-0.13-0.23
0.75-0.132300.00530.37-0.13-0.25
0.72-0.142350.00560.39-0.14-0.28
0.69-0.142400.00590.41-0.15-0.32
0.65-0.152450.00610.42-0.15-0.35
0.62-0.152500.00630.44-0.16-0.38
0.59-0.162550.00650.45-0.16-0.41
0.56-0.162600.00660.46-0.16-0.45
0.52-0.162650.00660.46-0.17-0.48
0.49-0.162700.00670.46-0.17-0.52
0.46-0.162750.00660.46-0.16-0.55
0.43-0.162800.00660.45-0.16-0.58
0.40-0.162850.00640.44-0.16-0.61

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot130205242.5277.53154206K0
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

spot115190257.533543055025K25K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 455K call contracts, 226K 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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