Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 6:25 PM ET

BNTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$92.63
Max pain · Fri, Dec 18$95+2.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.55±20.0% by Fri, Dec 18
Put/Call OI0.58676 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$125largest call OI
Put wall$100largest put OI
IV3033.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$37Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $125

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$90-2.8%7d
Fri, Sep 18$97.5+5.3%35d
Fri, Dec 18$95+2.6%126d
Fri, Jan 15$95+2.6%154d
Fri, Mar 19$110+18.8%217d
Fri, May 21$90-2.8%280d
Fri, Aug 20$87.5-5.5%371d
Fri, Nov 19$70-24.4%462d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot95507294116138160$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 — 95 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 18

spot95507587.5100125150184184
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BNTX open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 18.

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, Dec 18

spot95507587.51001251501K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18

spot50729411613816053%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 18

spotflip 125507587.5100125150+$19K$19K
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, Dec 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.02750.01010.13-0.02-0.16
0.81-0.0377.50.01140.15-0.03-0.19
0.77-0.03800.01260.16-0.03-0.23
0.74-0.0382.50.01370.18-0.03-0.27
0.70-0.03850.01470.19-0.03-0.31
0.66-0.0387.50.01560.20-0.04-0.35
0.62-0.04900.01620.21-0.04-0.39
0.57-0.0492.50.01670.21-0.04-0.43
0.53-0.04950.01690.22-0.04-0.48
0.49-0.0497.50.01700.22-0.04-0.52
0.45-0.041000.01680.22-0.04-0.56
0.38-0.041050.01610.21-0.04-0.64
0.32-0.031100.01490.19-0.04-0.70
0.26-0.031150.01340.18-0.03-0.77
0.21-0.031200.01190.16-0.03-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5082.5951151401655K0
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

spot42.565851001301605K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 27K call contracts, 21K 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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