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

BNTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$92.63
Max pain · Fri, May 21$90-2.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$28.5±30.8% by Fri, May 21
Put/Call OI0.51118 puts / 230 calls
Call wall$100largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3033.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$13Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $100

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

spot90506886104122140$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 — 90 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, May 21

spot90507587.597.5115135113113
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BNTX open contracts per strike for Fri, May 21.

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, May 21

spot90507587.597.511513511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, May 21

spot50688610412214049%42%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 44.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, May 21

spotflip 100507587.597.5115135+$11K$11K
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, May 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.01700.00680.20-0.01-0.16
0.79-0.02750.00790.23-0.02-0.21
0.74-0.02800.00890.26-0.02-0.26
0.71-0.0282.50.00940.27-0.02-0.29
0.69-0.02850.00980.28-0.02-0.32
0.66-0.0287.50.01020.29-0.02-0.35
0.64-0.02900.01050.30-0.02-0.37
0.61-0.0292.50.01070.31-0.03-0.40
0.58-0.02950.01090.32-0.03-0.43
0.56-0.0297.50.01110.32-0.03-0.46
0.53-0.021000.01120.32-0.03-0.49
0.48-0.021050.01120.32-0.03-0.54
0.43-0.021100.01110.32-0.03-0.60
0.38-0.021150.01090.31-0.03-0.65
0.34-0.021200.01040.30-0.02-0.70

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

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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