Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 17, 9:56 PM ET

AGYS max pain

Spot (delayed)$111.33
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$60-46.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.9±27.8% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.1629 puts / 186 calls
Call wall$130largest call OI
Put wall$110largest put OI
IV3049.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$16Kper 1% move

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$95-14.7%4d
Fri, Sep 18$95-14.7%32d
Fri, Oct 16$55-50.6%60d
Fri, Jan 15$60-46.1%151d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AGYS 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot356289116143170104%52%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot356090115145170+$5K$5K
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
0.89-0.02750.00420.13-0.03-0.11
0.86-0.03800.00510.16-0.03-0.14
0.83-0.03850.00600.18-0.04-0.17
0.79-0.04900.00690.21-0.04-0.21
0.75-0.04950.00780.23-0.04-0.26
0.70-0.041000.00850.25-0.05-0.30
0.65-0.051050.00920.26-0.05-0.35
0.60-0.051100.00960.28-0.05-0.40
0.56-0.051150.01000.28-0.05-0.45
0.51-0.051200.01010.29-0.05-0.50
0.46-0.051250.01010.28-0.05-0.55
0.42-0.051300.01000.28-0.05-0.60
0.38-0.051350.00970.27-0.05-0.64
0.30-0.041450.00890.25-0.04-0.72
0.27-0.041500.00840.24-0.04-0.76

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

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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

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 906 call contracts, 183 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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