Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 23, 1:50 AM ET

AMT max pain

Spot (delayed)$175.25
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$175-0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$31.85±18.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI1.79712 puts / 397 calls
Call wall$200largest call OI
Put wall$125largest put OI
IV3024.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$24Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Oct 16$170-3.0%23d
Fri, Nov 20$175-0.1%58d
Fri, Dec 18$175-0.1%86d
Fri, Jan 15$180+2.7%114d
Fri, Mar 19$175-0.1%177d
Fri, Apr 16$180+2.7%205d
Thu, Jun 17$175-0.1%267d
Fri, Sep 17$175-0.1%359d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot17590122154186218250$4M$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 — 175 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot17590120145170195240132132
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMT open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot1759012014517019524077
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot9012215418621825039%24%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 27.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot90120145170195240+$27K$27K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-0.011400.00540.32-0.02-0.16
0.83-0.021450.00630.36-0.02-0.20
0.79-0.021500.00720.42-0.02-0.23
0.75-0.021550.00800.46-0.02-0.27
0.71-0.021600.00880.49-0.03-0.32
0.66-0.031650.00950.53-0.03-0.36
0.61-0.031700.01000.55-0.03-0.41
0.56-0.031750.01040.57-0.03-0.46
0.51-0.031800.01050.57-0.03-0.51
0.46-0.031850.01040.57-0.03-0.56
0.41-0.031900.01020.56-0.02-0.60
0.37-0.031950.00990.55-0.02-0.65
0.32-0.032000.00950.52-0.02-0.69
0.24-0.022100.00840.46-0.02-0.78
0.18-0.022200.00710.39-0.01-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1001401601802002402K0
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

spot851201551902503206K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 23K call contracts, 19K 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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