Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:44 AM ET

AMD max pain

Spot (delayed)$515.78
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$470-8.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$38.3±7.4% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.8527K puts / 32K calls
Call wall$580largest call OI
Put wall$375largest put OI
IV3048.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$27.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $515
Earnings · expectedTue, Nov 3usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Mon, Sep 14$502.5-2.6%3d
Wed, Sep 16$495-4.0%5d
Fri, Sep 18$420-18.6%7d
Mon, Sep 21$510-1.1%10d
Wed, Sep 23$510-1.1%12d
Fri, Sep 25$470-8.9%14d
Fri, Oct 2$470-8.9%21d
Fri, Oct 9$490-5.0%28d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot470260352444536628720$496M$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 — 470 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot4702603804304805355854K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMD open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot280380435485540590+320320
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 365 +320 · 430 +290 · 300 284 · 510 +242

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot470260380430480535585567567
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot260352444536628720122%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 515325390440490545600+$3.0M$3.0M
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, Sep 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.82-0.464750.00520.26-0.46-0.18
0.79-0.504800.00570.29-0.51-0.21
0.76-0.544850.00620.31-0.55-0.24
0.73-0.584900.00670.34-0.58-0.27
0.66-0.645000.00760.37-0.65-0.34
0.62-0.675050.00790.39-0.67-0.38
0.58-0.685100.00810.40-0.69-0.42
0.54-0.695150.00820.40-0.69-0.47
0.49-0.695200.00830.40-0.70-0.51
0.45-0.695250.00820.40-0.69-0.55
0.41-0.675300.00810.39-0.68-0.59
0.38-0.655350.00790.38-0.66-0.63
0.34-0.635400.00760.37-0.64-0.67
0.30-0.605450.00730.35-0.61-0.70
0.27-0.575500.00690.34-0.57-0.73

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

spot100195350445500537.511K0
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 — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-08521.17424.31
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot513521035049065063K63K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.5M call contracts, 1.7M 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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