Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:44 AM ET

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$174.98
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$175+0.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.1±6.9% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.4897K puts / 203K calls
Call wall$182.5largest call OI
Put wall$160largest put OI
IV3063.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$24.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $175
Earnings · expectedThu, Oct 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 18$175+0.0%6d
Fri, Sep 25$170-2.8%13d
Fri, Oct 2$187.5+7.2%20d
Fri, Oct 9$182.5+4.3%27d
Fri, Oct 16$170-2.8%34d
Fri, Oct 23$180+2.9%41d
Fri, Oct 30$165-5.7%48d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Oct 29)
Fri, Nov 20$170-2.8%69d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot17550216382548714880$9.9B$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 — 175 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot1755011516519529065010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot75135170190240310+5K5K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 182.5 +5K · 175 +5K · 177.5 +4K · 187.5 +2K

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot175501151651952906505K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot65152239326413500234%43%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 17575115155185230310+$6.4M$6.4M
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, Sep 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.061400.00240.01-0.06-0.02
0.97-0.071450.00360.02-0.07-0.03
0.95-0.101500.00570.02-0.10-0.05
0.92-0.161550.00930.04-0.16-0.08
0.86-0.241600.01430.05-0.24-0.14
0.77-0.331650.01990.07-0.33-0.23
0.66-0.411700.02430.09-0.41-0.34
0.53-0.451750.02600.10-0.45-0.47
0.46-0.45177.50.02580.10-0.45-0.54
0.40-0.441800.02480.09-0.45-0.60
0.35-0.43182.50.02330.09-0.43-0.66
0.30-0.401850.02160.08-0.40-0.71
0.25-0.37187.50.01960.08-0.37-0.75
0.21-0.341900.01760.07-0.34-0.79
0.18-0.30192.50.01560.06-0.31-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot50136157.519525063010K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-08191.65145.00
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot512518529044069038K38K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 622K call contracts, 453K 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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