Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 4:56 PM ET

DINO max pain

Spot (delayed)$92.96
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$82.5-11.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.4±4.7% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.154K puts / 25K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$85largest put OI
IV3043.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$9.5Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $80

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$82.5-11.3%6d
Fri, Sep 18$80-13.9%34d
Fri, Dec 18$77.5-16.6%125d
Fri, Jan 15$60-35.5%153d
Fri, Mar 19$82.5-11.3%216d
Fri, May 21$65-30.1%279d
Fri, Aug 20$70-24.7%370d
Fri, Nov 19$55-40.8%461d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot82.54356708397110$47M$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 — 82.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot82.542.5607080901007K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DINO open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.

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, Aug 21

spot82.542.5607080901002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot65748392101110153%39%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 8072.58087.595105+$4.2M$4.2M
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, Aug 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00-0.00750.00030.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.0077.50.00110.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.01800.00360.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.0282.50.01000.01-0.02-0.03
0.93-0.05850.02280.02-0.05-0.07
0.85-0.0987.50.04150.03-0.09-0.15
0.71-0.14900.05980.04-0.14-0.29
0.55-0.1692.50.06910.05-0.17-0.46
0.38-0.16950.06550.05-0.16-0.62
0.24-0.1397.50.05250.04-0.13-0.77
0.14-0.091000.03660.03-0.09-0.87
0.04-0.031050.01280.01-0.03-0.97
0.01-0.011100.00330.00-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot355567.58092.511025K0
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

spot22.54057.57592.512026K26K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 78K call contracts, 24K 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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