Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 8:08 PM ET

ASML max pain

Spot (delayed)$1,740
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$1,800+3.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$214.2±12.3% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI2.55416 puts / 163 calls
Call wall$2,190largest call OI
Put wall$1,515largest put OI
IV3049.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$415Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$1,695-2.6%today
Fri, Aug 14$1,695-2.6%7d
Fri, Aug 21$1,700-2.3%14d
Fri, Aug 28$1,675-3.8%21d
Fri, Sep 4$1,550-10.9%28d
Fri, Sep 11$1,800+3.4%35d
Fri, Sep 18$1,560-10.4%42d
Fri, Sep 25$1,750+0.5%49d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1800100012381476171419522190$18M$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 — 1800 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot18001000124014001485155018006767
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ASML open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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, Sep 11

spot18001000124014001485155018005656
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot10001238147617141952219097%48%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 49.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot104512751420150015752000+$122K$122K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.79-1.1615600.00101.58-1.17-0.22
0.77-1.2115750.00111.65-1.22-0.23
0.67-1.4116500.00131.95-1.42-0.33
0.66-1.4316600.00141.98-1.45-0.34
0.62-1.4816850.00142.05-1.49-0.38
0.62-1.4816900.00142.06-1.50-0.39
0.56-1.5217250.00152.12-1.54-0.44
0.56-1.5317300.00152.13-1.54-0.45
0.52-1.5417550.00152.15-1.56-0.48
0.46-1.5218000.00152.14-1.55-0.55
0.25-1.2319600.00121.73-1.26-0.75
0.24-1.2019700.00121.70-1.23-0.77
0.21-1.1220000.00111.58-1.15-0.80
0.17-0.9820500.00091.38-1.02-0.84
0.16-0.9220700.00091.30-0.96-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot680142015601700185021202K0
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

spot45080012001450168020804K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 90K call contracts, 102K 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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