Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 21, 3:27 AM ET

EVR max pain

Spot (delayed)$287.09
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$300+4.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$23.15±8.1% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.34734 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$300largest call OI
Put wall$300largest put OI
IV3034.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.4Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $300

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$320+11.5%today
Fri, Sep 18$300+4.5%28d
Fri, Nov 20$340+18.4%91d
Fri, Dec 18$300+4.5%119d
Fri, Mar 19$210-26.9%210d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot300145224303382461540$48M$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 — 300 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot3001451852503304104901K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)EVR open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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 18

spot30014518525033041049077
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot145224303382461540139%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 300145185260340420500+$1.2M$1.2M
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, Sep 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.032200.00180.06-0.06-0.03
0.95-0.052300.00260.08-0.07-0.05
0.93-0.072400.00380.12-0.09-0.07
0.89-0.102500.00550.15-0.11-0.11
0.83-0.132600.00790.20-0.14-0.17
0.74-0.162700.01080.26-0.17-0.26
0.63-0.182800.01340.31-0.18-0.38
0.48-0.192900.01430.32-0.19-0.52
0.35-0.183000.01310.30-0.18-0.66
0.25-0.163100.01070.26-0.15-0.76
0.18-0.143200.00830.21-0.13-0.84
0.13-0.123300.00630.17-0.10-0.89
0.09-0.103400.00480.14-0.08-0.92
0.07-0.083500.00370.11-0.06-0.94
0.06-0.073600.00290.09-0.04-0.96

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

spot1451902503203904601K0
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

spot1451852503304104902K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 6K call contracts, 2K 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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