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

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$174.98
Max pain · Fri, Oct 9$182.5+4.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.1±14.3% by Fri, Oct 9
Put/Call OI1.433K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$185largest call OI
Put wall$135largest put OI
IV3063.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$106Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedThu, Oct 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 — 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

spot182.590132174216258300$16M$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 — 182.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 9

spot182.590130162.5182.5202.5235539539
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 9.

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

spot80149170190210255+100100
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: 120 +100 · 150 +32 · 172.5 +26 · 155 +18

Volume by strike · Fri, Oct 9

spot182.590130162.5182.5202.5235167167
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 9

spot90132174216258300157%59%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 64.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 9

spot90130162.5182.5202.5235+$128K$128K
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, Oct 9

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.76-0.17157.50.01000.15-0.17-0.24
0.74-0.181600.01060.16-0.18-0.27
0.71-0.19162.50.01120.17-0.19-0.30
0.68-0.201650.01170.17-0.20-0.33
0.64-0.21167.50.01210.18-0.21-0.36
0.61-0.211700.01240.19-0.21-0.39
0.58-0.22172.50.01270.19-0.22-0.42
0.55-0.221750.01280.19-0.22-0.46
0.52-0.22177.50.01290.19-0.22-0.49
0.48-0.221800.01280.19-0.22-0.52
0.46-0.22182.50.01270.19-0.22-0.55
0.42-0.221850.01260.19-0.22-0.58
0.40-0.21187.50.01230.19-0.22-0.61
0.37-0.211900.01200.18-0.21-0.64
0.34-0.21192.50.01170.18-0.21-0.66

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 48 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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