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

AMR max pain

Spot (delayed)$155.6
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$135-13.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$53.35±34.3% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.75365 puts / 488 calls
Call wall$135largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3054.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$10Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

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$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

spot13580120160200240280$7M$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 — 135 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMR open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot8012016020024028078%57%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 11080110140170200260+$34K$34K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.041200.00400.31-0.05-0.20
0.79-0.051250.00440.33-0.05-0.22
0.76-0.051300.00470.35-0.06-0.25
0.73-0.051350.00500.37-0.06-0.28
0.70-0.061400.00520.39-0.06-0.31
0.68-0.061450.00540.41-0.06-0.34
0.65-0.061500.00560.42-0.07-0.37
0.62-0.061550.00580.43-0.07-0.40
0.59-0.071600.00590.44-0.07-0.43
0.56-0.071650.00600.45-0.07-0.46
0.53-0.071700.00600.45-0.07-0.49
0.50-0.071750.00610.45-0.07-0.52
0.48-0.071800.00600.45-0.07-0.54
0.45-0.071850.00600.45-0.07-0.57
0.43-0.071900.00600.44-0.07-0.60

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 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

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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