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

FNV max pain

Spot (delayed)$231.57
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$200-13.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$47.55±20.5% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI1.215K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$280largest call OI
Put wall$200largest put OI
IV3038.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$30Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $115

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 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — 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

spot20060130200270340410$74M$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 — 200 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FNV open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot60130200270340410107%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 115100135170210280350+$413K$413K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.031800.00340.31-0.04-0.13
0.85-0.041850.00380.35-0.04-0.15
0.83-0.041900.00420.39-0.05-0.17
0.80-0.051950.00460.42-0.05-0.20
0.77-0.052000.00500.45-0.06-0.23
0.71-0.062100.00570.51-0.07-0.29
0.65-0.072200.00620.56-0.07-0.36
0.59-0.072300.00650.59-0.07-0.42
0.52-0.072400.00670.60-0.08-0.49
0.46-0.072500.00660.60-0.08-0.56
0.40-0.072600.00640.58-0.07-0.62
0.35-0.072700.00610.56-0.07-0.68
0.30-0.072800.00570.52-0.07-0.73
0.25-0.062900.00530.48-0.06-0.78
0.21-0.063000.00480.44-0.05-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 49 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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