Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 3:37 AM ET

FUBO max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.82
Max pain · Fri, Sep 4$1-89.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.44±14.7% by Fri, Sep 4
Put/Call OI0.16120 puts / 750 calls
Call wall$1largest call OI
Put wall$8largest put OI
IV3074.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $7

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

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 14$7-28.7%today
Fri, Aug 21$12+22.2%7d
Fri, Aug 28$5-49.1%14d
Fri, Sep 4$1-89.8%21d
Fri, Sep 11$1-89.8%28d
Fri, Sep 18$11+12.0%35d
Fri, Sep 25$1-89.8%42d
Fri, Nov 20$10+1.8%98d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1158121519$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 — 1 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot1148111417324324
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FUBO open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.

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 4

spot1148111417184184
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot6911141619255%59%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 74.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spotflip 7148111417+$2K$2K
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 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0020.00270.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0030.00520.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0040.00920.00-0.00-0.02
0.96-0.0160.02970.00-0.01-0.04
0.92-0.0170.05580.00-0.01-0.08
0.85-0.0180.10670.01-0.01-0.14
0.71-0.0190.18240.01-0.01-0.29
0.50-0.02100.21560.01-0.02-0.50
0.33-0.02110.18090.01-0.02-0.67
0.21-0.01120.13440.01-0.01-0.79
0.15-0.01130.09800.01-0.01-0.85
0.10-0.01140.07210.00-0.01-0.90
0.08-0.01150.05390.00-0.01-0.93
0.06-0.01160.04100.00-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.01170.03170.00-0.00-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot169.51317.5233K0
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

spot169.51316.52010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 43K call contracts, 15K 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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