Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 9:30 PM ET

FBTC max pain

Spot (delayed)$54.5
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$56+2.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.03±7.4% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.58193 puts / 332 calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$46largest put OI
IV3032.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$25Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $59

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

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$55+0.9%5d
Fri, Aug 28$53-2.8%12d
Fri, Sep 4$54-0.9%19d
Fri, Sep 11$56+2.8%26d
Fri, Sep 18$58+6.4%33d
Fri, Sep 25$55+0.9%40d
Fri, Oct 2$51.5-5.5%47d
Fri, Dec 18$58+6.4%124d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot56465156606570$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 — 56 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FBTC open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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 11

spot56465456.55961.56060
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot46515660657053%28%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 59465456.55961.5+$11K$11K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.02460.02010.02-0.02-0.07
0.82-0.03500.04570.04-0.03-0.18
0.72-0.03520.06420.05-0.03-0.28
0.69-0.0352.50.06880.05-0.03-0.31
0.62-0.0353.50.07660.06-0.03-0.38
0.58-0.03540.07960.06-0.03-0.42
0.54-0.0354.50.08160.06-0.04-0.46
0.50-0.03550.08250.06-0.03-0.50
0.46-0.0355.50.08240.06-0.03-0.54
0.42-0.03560.08110.06-0.03-0.58
0.38-0.0356.50.07880.06-0.03-0.62
0.34-0.03570.07580.06-0.03-0.66
0.31-0.0357.50.07210.05-0.03-0.69
0.28-0.03580.06800.05-0.03-0.73

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3553565962683K0
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

spot3053597010414027K27K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 67K call contracts, 42K 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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