Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 1:47 AM ET

AMR max pain

Spot (delayed)$155.6
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$125-19.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$38.45±24.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.862K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$120largest call OI
Put wall$140largest put OI
IV3054.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$64Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $100

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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$160+2.8%7d
Fri, Sep 18$140-10.0%35d
Fri, Nov 20$125-19.7%98d
Fri, Feb 19$135-13.2%189d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot12575126177228279330$34M$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 — 125 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot12575110145180230300709709
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMR open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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, Nov 20

spot125751101451802303001515
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot7512617722827933084%56%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 59.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 10075110145180230300+$79K$79K
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, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.051200.00480.19-0.06-0.16
0.82-0.061250.00540.22-0.07-0.19
0.78-0.071300.00600.24-0.07-0.22
0.75-0.071350.00660.26-0.08-0.26
0.71-0.081400.00710.28-0.08-0.30
0.67-0.081450.00760.30-0.09-0.34
0.63-0.091500.00790.31-0.09-0.38
0.59-0.091550.00810.32-0.09-0.42
0.55-0.091600.00830.32-0.09-0.46
0.51-0.091650.00840.32-0.09-0.50
0.47-0.091700.00830.32-0.09-0.54
0.43-0.091750.00820.32-0.09-0.58
0.40-0.091800.00800.31-0.09-0.62
0.36-0.091850.00780.30-0.09-0.65
0.33-0.091900.00750.29-0.08-0.69

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 39 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot901351651952503107090
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

spot70110150190260340709709
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 4K call contracts, 4K 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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