Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 4:47 PM ET

FIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$32.83
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$25-23.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.15±6.5% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.546K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$25largest call OI
Put wall$25largest put OI
IV3060.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$425Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $25

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$25-23.9%6d
Fri, Sep 18$27.5-16.2%34d
Fri, Oct 16$22.5-31.5%62d
Fri, Jan 15$20-39.1%153d
Fri, Dec 17$10-69.5%489d
Fri, Jan 21$7.5-77.2%524d
Fri, Dec 15$20-39.1%853d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot25131925313743$16M$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 — 25 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot2512.52027.53542.53K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FIVN 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

spot2512.52027.53542.5106106
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot182328333843231%55%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 58.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 2517.522.527.532.537.542.5+$165K$165K
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
1.0015
1.0017.50.00010.000.00
1.000.00200.00020.000.000.00
1.00-0.0022.50.00120.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.01250.00600.00-0.01-0.01
0.96-0.0227.50.02460.00-0.02-0.04
0.85-0.05300.07850.01-0.05-0.15
0.56-0.0832.50.14160.02-0.08-0.44
0.24-0.06350.11050.01-0.06-0.76
0.08-0.0337.50.04980.01-0.03-0.92
0.03-0.01400.01940.00-0.01-0.97
0.01-0.0142.50.00770.00-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 13 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot7.51522.53037.515K0
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

spot2.512.522.532.542.552.516K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 65K call contracts, 17K 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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