Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 4:01 PM ET

BHP max pain

Spot (delayed)$90.16
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$60-33.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$17.7±19.6% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.4111K puts / 28K calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$40largest put OI
IV3039.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · 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$85-5.7%14d
Fri, Sep 18$75-16.8%42d
Fri, Nov 20$82.5-8.5%105d
Fri, Dec 18$82.5-8.5%133d
Fri, Jan 15$60-33.5%161d
Fri, Feb 19$85-5.7%196d
Fri, Mar 19$90-0.2%224d
Thu, Jun 17$75-16.8%314d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot6025476991113135$160M$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot602542.56077.5951256K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BHP 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

spot602542.56077.5951252525
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot2547699111313582%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 602542.56077.595125+$712K$712K
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
0.83-0.0272.50.01080.15-0.02-0.17
0.80-0.02750.01210.17-0.02-0.21
0.76-0.0277.50.01330.18-0.02-0.24
0.72-0.02800.01450.20-0.02-0.28
0.69-0.0282.50.01560.21-0.03-0.32
0.64-0.03850.01650.22-0.03-0.37
0.60-0.0387.50.01720.23-0.03-0.41
0.56-0.03900.01770.23-0.03-0.46
0.51-0.0392.50.01790.23-0.03-0.50
0.47-0.03950.01790.23-0.03-0.55
0.43-0.0397.50.01770.23-0.03-0.59
0.39-0.031000.01730.23-0.03-0.63
0.32-0.021050.01610.21-0.03-0.71
0.26-0.021100.01440.19-0.02-0.78
0.20-0.021150.01260.17-0.02-0.84

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 38 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot47.56072.58597.512015K0
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

spot2542.56077.59512535K35K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 91K call contracts, 88K 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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