Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 3:32 AM ET

FNV max pain

Spot (delayed)$231.57
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$220-5.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.25±13.1% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI1.062K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$250largest call OI
Put wall$195largest put OI
IV3038.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$88Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $140

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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$220-5.0%7d
Fri, Sep 18$220-5.0%35d
Fri, Oct 16$220-5.0%63d
Fri, Jan 15$200-13.6%154d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 220 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FNV open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot13018624229835441073%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

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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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.011800.00280.11-0.03-0.05
0.93-0.021850.00360.13-0.04-0.07
0.91-0.031900.00440.17-0.05-0.10
0.88-0.051950.00540.20-0.06-0.12
0.84-0.062000.00630.23-0.07-0.16
0.76-0.082100.00820.30-0.09-0.24
0.67-0.102200.00970.35-0.10-0.34
0.56-0.112300.01040.38-0.11-0.44
0.46-0.112400.01040.38-0.11-0.55
0.37-0.112500.00970.36-0.11-0.64
0.29-0.102600.00860.33-0.10-0.72
0.22-0.092700.00740.29-0.08-0.79
0.17-0.082800.00620.25-0.07-0.84
0.13-0.072900.00510.21-0.05-0.89
0.10-0.063000.00410.17-0.04-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 36 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot601051501952803702K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 10K call contracts, 11K 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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