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

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$174.98
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$170-2.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$17.13±9.8% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.819K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$185largest call OI
Put wall$135largest put OI
IV3063.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $185
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

spot17090132174216258300$114M$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 — 170 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot17090138149172.5197.52301K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

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

spot75140157.5180205250+171171
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: 200 +171 · 175 +112 · 170 +94 · 165 +89

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot17090138149172.5197.52301K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot90132174216258300178%61%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 18590138149172.5197.5230+$473K$473K
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 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.20157.50.01190.09-0.20-0.17
0.79-0.221600.01330.10-0.22-0.21
0.76-0.24162.50.01460.11-0.24-0.24
0.71-0.261650.01580.12-0.26-0.29
0.67-0.28167.50.01680.12-0.28-0.33
0.63-0.291700.01760.13-0.29-0.38
0.58-0.30172.50.01810.13-0.30-0.42
0.54-0.311750.01840.14-0.31-0.47
0.49-0.31177.50.01840.14-0.31-0.51
0.45-0.311800.01810.14-0.31-0.56
0.40-0.31182.50.01760.13-0.31-0.60
0.36-0.301850.01700.13-0.30-0.64
0.33-0.29187.50.01620.12-0.29-0.68
0.29-0.271900.01530.12-0.28-0.71
0.26-0.26192.50.01440.11-0.26-0.75

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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