Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 2:27 AM ET

CAMT max pain

Spot (delayed)$174.13
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$100-42.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$67.05±38.5% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.872K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$110largest call OI
Put wall$30largest put OI
IV3072.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$145Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

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$170-2.4%8d
Fri, Sep 18$135-22.5%36d
Fri, Nov 20$180+3.4%99d
Fri, Jan 15$100-42.6%155d
Fri, Feb 19$130-25.3%190d
Fri, Dec 17$100-42.6%491d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1003084138192246300$27M$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 — 100 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CAMT 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

spot100307011015019026066
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot3084138192246300143%73%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 74.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 1103070110150190260+$23K$23K
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
0.76-0.081400.00350.35-0.08-0.24
0.74-0.081450.00370.37-0.09-0.26
0.71-0.081500.00390.38-0.09-0.28
0.69-0.091550.00400.40-0.09-0.30
0.67-0.091600.00420.41-0.10-0.33
0.65-0.091650.00430.42-0.10-0.35
0.63-0.101700.00440.43-0.10-0.37
0.60-0.101750.00450.44-0.10-0.40
0.58-0.101800.00460.44-0.10-0.42
0.56-0.101850.00460.45-0.10-0.44
0.54-0.101900.00460.45-0.10-0.47
0.52-0.101950.00470.45-0.10-0.49
0.49-0.102000.00470.45-0.10-0.51
0.46-0.102100.00460.45-0.10-0.55
0.42-0.102200.00460.44-0.10-0.59

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot50901301652002701K0
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

spot30701101501902601K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 11K call contracts, 12K 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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