Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 5, 11:50 PM ET

BAC max pain

Spot (delayed)$63.3
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$62-2.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.43±5.4% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.39201 puts / 512 calls
Call wall$69largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3020.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$65Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $66

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · 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$61-3.6%2d
Fri, Aug 14$62-2.1%9d
Fri, Aug 21$57.5-9.2%16d
Fri, Aug 28$60-5.2%23d
Fri, Sep 4$62-2.1%30d
Fri, Sep 11$62-2.1%37d
Fri, Sep 18$55-13.1%44d
Fri, Oct 16$57.5-9.2%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot62495458636772$1M$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 — 62 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BAC 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

spot624955596367712727
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot49545863677238%19%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 20.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 66495559636771+$42K$42K
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
0.95-0.01560.02210.02-0.01-0.07
0.93-0.01570.02950.03-0.01-0.09
0.90-0.01580.03930.04-0.01-0.12
0.86-0.01590.05140.05-0.01-0.17
0.80-0.02600.06530.06-0.02-0.22
0.73-0.02610.07920.07-0.02-0.29
0.65-0.02620.09100.07-0.02-0.38
0.55-0.02630.09850.08-0.02-0.47
0.46-0.02640.10010.08-0.02-0.57
0.36-0.02650.09530.07-0.02-0.66
0.27-0.02660.08480.07-0.02-0.75
0.19-0.01670.07060.06-0.01-0.82
0.13-0.01680.05510.04-0.01-0.88
0.09-0.01690.04100.03-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.01700.02960.03-0.01-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot30425057637038K0
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

spot183747566472.5173K173K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.0M call contracts, 1.1M 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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