Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 12:38 AM ET

CRWD max pain

Spot (delayed)$208.9
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$180-13.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$34.55±16.5% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI1.64730 puts / 444 calls
Call wall$250largest call OI
Put wall$180largest put OI
IV3066.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$916per 1% move · flip ≈ $270
Earnings · expectedWed, Aug 26usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$195-6.7%2d
Fri, Aug 14$195-6.7%9d
Fri, Aug 21$155-25.8%16d
Fri, Aug 28$185-11.4%23d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Aug 26)
Fri, Sep 4$190-9.0%30d
Fri, Sep 11$180-13.8%37d
Fri, Sep 18$150-28.2%44d
Fri, Oct 16$145-30.6%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot180110142174206238270$4M$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 — 180 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot180110145175205235270120120
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRWD open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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, Sep 11

spot180110145175205235270140140
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot110142174206238270105%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 64.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 270110145170195220245+$29K$29K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.141750.00560.16-0.14-0.16
0.81-0.161800.00640.18-0.16-0.19
0.77-0.171850.00710.20-0.18-0.23
0.73-0.191900.00770.22-0.19-0.27
0.68-0.211950.00820.24-0.21-0.32
0.64-0.222000.00860.25-0.22-0.36
0.59-0.232050.00890.26-0.23-0.41
0.55-0.232100.00910.27-0.23-0.46
0.50-0.232150.00910.27-0.24-0.50
0.46-0.232200.00900.27-0.24-0.54
0.42-0.232250.00890.26-0.23-0.59
0.38-0.232300.00860.25-0.23-0.63
0.34-0.222350.00830.24-0.22-0.66
0.31-0.212400.00790.23-0.21-0.70
0.27-0.202450.00750.22-0.20-0.73

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55117.5157.518020023011K0
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

spot3577.5112.5147.5182.522026K26K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 679K call contracts, 641K 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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