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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 12:47 AM ET

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$167.64
Max pain · Fri, Jul 31$160-4.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$16.3±9.7% by Fri, Jul 31
Put/Call OI0.5539K puts / 71K calls
Call wall$162.5largest call OI
Put wall$140largest put OI
IV3079.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$22.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $162.5
Earnings · expectedThu, Jul 30usually after the close

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Jul 31$160-4.6%2d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Jul 30)
Fri, Aug 7$165-1.6%9d
Fri, Aug 14$165-1.6%16d
Fri, Aug 21$160-4.6%23d
Fri, Aug 28$165-1.6%30d
Fri, Sep 4$160-4.6%37d
Fri, Sep 18$175+4.4%51d
Fri, Oct 16$180+7.4%79d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1604093146199252305$886M$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 — 160 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spot16040951451651902308K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Jul 31.

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, Jul 31

spot16040951451651902302K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spot4093146199252305486%77%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 133.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spotflip 162.570120149170192.5230+$4.0M$4.0M
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, Jul 31

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.851500.01190.04-0.85-0.17
0.80-0.98152.50.01340.04-0.98-0.20
0.76-1.101550.01490.05-1.11-0.24
0.72-1.22157.50.01630.05-1.22-0.28
0.68-1.321600.01740.06-1.32-0.32
0.63-1.40162.50.01830.06-1.40-0.37
0.58-1.451650.01900.06-1.46-0.42
0.54-1.48167.50.01940.06-1.48-0.47
0.49-1.481700.01950.06-1.48-0.52
0.44-1.45172.50.01930.06-1.45-0.56
0.39-1.401750.01890.06-1.40-0.61
0.35-1.32177.50.01820.06-1.33-0.65
0.30-1.231800.01730.05-1.24-0.70
0.27-1.13182.50.01630.05-1.14-0.74
0.23-1.031850.01500.05-1.03-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot40120150177.52102659K0
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

History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot5100162.523037068035K35K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 557K call contracts, 413K 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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