Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 22, 4:21 AM ET

DAL max pain

Spot (delayed)$82.62
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$80-3.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.81±3.4% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.225K puts / 22K calls
Call wall$82largest call OI
Put wall$77largest put OI
IV3044.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$13.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $60
Earnings · expectedThu, Oct 8usually before the open

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 25$80-3.2%3d
Fri, Oct 2$80-3.2%10d
Fri, Oct 9$79-4.4%17d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Oct 8)
Fri, Oct 16$80-3.2%24d
Fri, Oct 23$79-4.4%31d
Fri, Oct 30$78-5.6%38d
Fri, Nov 20$82.5-0.1%59d
Fri, Dec 18$75-9.2%87d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot805061728495106$49M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot8050707886941029K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DAL open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

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 25

spot8050707886941025K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot6573818896104156%30%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 40.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 605571798795103+$6.7M$6.7M
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
0.96-0.03760.02090.01-0.03-0.04
0.94-0.05770.03140.01-0.05-0.06
0.91-0.07780.04610.01-0.07-0.10
0.85-0.10790.06440.02-0.10-0.15
0.78-0.13800.08410.03-0.13-0.22
0.69-0.16810.10150.03-0.16-0.32
0.58-0.18820.11260.03-0.18-0.43
0.46-0.18830.11430.03-0.18-0.54
0.35-0.17840.10650.03-0.17-0.65
0.26-0.14850.09190.03-0.15-0.75
0.18-0.12860.07400.02-0.12-0.83
0.12-0.09870.05600.02-0.09-0.89
0.08-0.06880.04030.01-0.06-0.93
0.05-0.04890.02820.01-0.04-0.96
0.03-0.03900.01950.01-0.03-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 44 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot507078869410210K0
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

spot2052.57282.59310558K58K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 304K call contracts, 163K 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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