Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 2:43 AM ET

DIS max pain

Spot (delayed)$104.62
Max pain · Fri, Sep 4$99-5.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.84±5.6% by Fri, Sep 4
Put/Call OI0.771K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$101largest call OI
Put wall$99largest put OI
IV3024.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$418Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $85

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

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$98-6.3%1d
Fri, Aug 14$98-6.3%8d
Fri, Aug 21$95-9.2%15d
Fri, Aug 28$98-6.3%22d
Fri, Sep 4$99-5.4%29d
Fri, Sep 11$93-11.1%36d
Fri, Sep 18$100-4.4%43d
Fri, Oct 16$100-4.4%71d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot998091102113124135$5M$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 — 99 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot99809096102108135365365
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DIS open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.

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 4

spot99809096102108135414414
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot809110211312413559%15%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 24.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spotflip 85809096102108135+$183K$183K
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 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.03980.03250.07-0.03-0.15
0.81-0.03990.03740.08-0.03-0.19
0.77-0.041000.04210.09-0.04-0.23
0.72-0.041010.04630.10-0.04-0.28
0.67-0.041020.04980.11-0.04-0.33
0.62-0.051030.05240.11-0.05-0.38
0.57-0.051040.05410.12-0.05-0.44
0.51-0.051050.05470.12-0.05-0.49
0.46-0.051060.05420.12-0.05-0.55
0.41-0.051070.05290.12-0.05-0.60
0.36-0.051080.05070.11-0.05-0.65
0.31-0.041090.04780.10-0.04-0.70
0.27-0.041100.04440.10-0.04-0.75
0.11-0.021150.02490.06-0.02-0.91
0.04-0.011200.01130.03-0.02-0.99

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

spot60869510411314522K0
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

spot45849410411415556K56K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 439K call contracts, 294K 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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