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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 12:57 AM ET

AMD max pain

Spot (delayed)$460.4
Max pain · Wed, Jul 29$505+9.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$19.15±4.2% by Wed, Jul 29
Put/Call OI1.0022K puts / 22K calls
Call wall$532.5largest call OI
Put wall$450largest put OI
IV3081.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$29.2Mper 1% move
Earnings · expectedTue, Aug 4usually after the close

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Wed, Jul 29$505+9.7%today
Fri, Jul 31$510+10.8%2d
Mon, Aug 3$505+9.7%5d
Wed, Aug 5$515+11.9%7d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Aug 4)
Fri, Aug 7$505+9.7%9d
Mon, Aug 10$485+5.3%12d
Fri, Aug 14$525+14.0%16d
Fri, Aug 21$400-13.1%23d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot505320388456524592660$279M$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 — 505 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot505320442.5480505532.55602K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMD open contracts per strike for Wed, Jul 29.

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 · Wed, Jul 29

spot505320442.5480505532.556014K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot320388456524592660273%89%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 96.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot320442.5480505532.5560+$7.8M$7.8M
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 · Wed, Jul 29

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-1.744300.00920.05-1.74-0.14
0.74-3.694400.01360.08-3.69-0.26
0.71-4.38442.50.01460.08-4.38-0.29
0.67-5.174450.01540.09-5.17-0.33
0.59-6.934500.01670.09-6.93-0.41
0.51-7.834550.01710.10-7.83-0.49
0.46-7.53457.50.01700.10-7.53-0.54
0.42-6.854600.01680.09-6.85-0.58
0.34-5.184650.01570.09-5.18-0.66
0.27-3.794700.01400.08-3.78-0.73
0.21-2.724750.01210.07-2.72-0.79
0.18-2.29477.50.01110.06-2.28-0.82
0.16-1.914800.01010.06-1.91-0.84
0.14-1.59482.50.00910.05-1.59-0.86
0.12-1.324850.00820.05-1.32-0.88

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55420470512.55556307K0
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.

Max pain history

History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot512019032046060076K76K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.3M call contracts, 1.5M 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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