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

DINO max pain

Spot (delayed)$92.96
Max pain · Fri, Mar 19$82.5-11.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.75±27.7% by Fri, Mar 19
Put/Call OI0.66245 puts / 372 calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3043.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$20Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$82.5-11.3%5d
Fri, Sep 18$80-13.9%33d
Fri, Dec 18$77.5-16.6%124d
Fri, Jan 15$60-35.5%152d
Fri, Mar 19$82.5-11.3%215d
Fri, May 21$65-30.1%278d
Fri, Aug 20$70-24.7%369d
Fri, Nov 19$55-40.8%460d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot82.540587694112130$1M$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, Mar 19

spot82.540658095110121121
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DINO open contracts per strike for Fri, Mar 19.

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, Mar 19

spot82.54065809511022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Mar 19

spot4058769411213062%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Mar 19

spotflip 5040658095110+$8K$8K
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, Mar 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.02700.00740.17-0.02-0.16
0.79-0.02750.00880.20-0.02-0.21
0.76-0.0277.50.00940.22-0.02-0.24
0.73-0.02800.01010.23-0.02-0.27
0.70-0.0382.50.01060.24-0.03-0.30
0.64-0.0387.50.01150.26-0.03-0.36
0.61-0.03900.01180.27-0.03-0.39
0.55-0.03950.01220.28-0.03-0.45
0.52-0.0397.50.01230.28-0.03-0.48
0.49-0.031000.01230.28-0.03-0.51
0.44-0.031050.01210.28-0.03-0.56
0.39-0.031100.01170.27-0.03-0.61
0.30-0.031200.01060.25-0.03-0.70
0.23-0.021300.00920.22-0.02-0.78

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 19 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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