Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 18, 2:10 AM ET

BBIO max pain

Spot (delayed)$80
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$62.5-21.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.9±23.6% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI2.1915K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$45largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3040.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$170Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $27.5

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$70-12.5%3d
Fri, Sep 18$75-6.3%31d
Fri, Nov 20$65-18.8%94d
Fri, Jan 15$62.5-21.9%150d
Fri, Feb 19$45-43.8%185d
Fri, Mar 19$42.5-46.9%213d
Fri, May 21$42.5-46.9%276d
Fri, Aug 20$42.5-46.9%367d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot62.51334567799120$60M$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 — 62.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot62.512.53047.567.5851058K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BBIO open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot62.512.53047.567.58510511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot1334567799120161%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 27.512.53047.57087.5110+$307K$307K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.82-0.0262.50.00950.13-0.02-0.18
0.79-0.02650.01060.15-0.03-0.21
0.76-0.0267.50.01170.16-0.03-0.24
0.72-0.03700.01280.17-0.03-0.27
0.69-0.0372.50.01370.18-0.03-0.31
0.65-0.03750.01450.19-0.03-0.35
0.61-0.0377.50.01520.20-0.03-0.39
0.57-0.03800.01570.20-0.03-0.43
0.53-0.0382.50.01600.20-0.03-0.47
0.49-0.03850.01610.20-0.03-0.51
0.46-0.0387.50.01610.20-0.03-0.55
0.42-0.03900.01590.20-0.03-0.58
0.38-0.0392.50.01560.20-0.03-0.62
0.35-0.03950.01520.19-0.03-0.66
0.32-0.0397.50.01460.18-0.03-0.69

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

spot3547.567.58092.51102K0
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

spot12.532.552.572.592.51258K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 20K call contracts, 22K 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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