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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 2:16 AM ET

AMD max pain

Spot (delayed)$460.4
Max pain · Fri, Aug 14$525+14.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$69.5±15.1% by Fri, Aug 14
Put/Call OI1.2215K puts / 12K calls
Call wall$600largest call OI
Put wall$420largest put OI
IV3081.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$4.8Mper 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

spot525235368501634767900$347M$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 — 525 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot5252354104705205706401K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMD open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 14.

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, Aug 14

spot5252354104705205706401K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot235368501634767900128%87%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 88.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot235410470520570640+$1.0M$1.0M
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, Aug 14

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.68-0.934250.00410.35-0.94-0.32
0.66-0.954300.00420.36-0.96-0.35
0.63-0.974350.00430.37-0.98-0.37
0.61-0.994400.00440.38-1.00-0.39
0.59-1.014450.00450.38-1.01-0.41
0.56-1.024500.00450.39-1.02-0.44
0.54-1.024550.00460.39-1.03-0.46
0.52-1.034600.00460.39-1.03-0.48
0.47-1.024700.00460.39-1.03-0.53
0.45-1.024750.00460.39-1.02-0.55
0.43-1.014800.00450.39-1.01-0.57
0.41-1.004850.00450.38-1.00-0.59
0.39-0.984900.00440.38-0.98-0.61
0.37-0.964950.00440.37-0.97-0.63
0.35-0.955000.00430.36-0.95-0.65

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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