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

FUBO max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.82
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$1-89.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.79±18.2% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.0540 puts / 832 calls
Call wall$1largest call OI
Put wall$8largest put OI
IV3074.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $8

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 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 11

spot1147101318417417
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FUBO 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

spot11471013187575
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot259121619290%67%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 80.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 8147101318+$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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0030.00560.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0040.00990.00-0.00-0.02
0.97-0.0050.01740.00-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.0060.03120.00-0.01-0.05
0.91-0.0170.05740.00-0.01-0.09
0.84-0.0180.10440.01-0.01-0.16
0.70-0.0190.16500.01-0.01-0.30
0.51-0.01100.19080.01-0.01-0.49
0.35-0.01110.16840.01-0.01-0.65
0.24-0.01120.13220.01-0.01-0.76
0.17-0.01130.10030.01-0.01-0.83
0.12-0.01140.07580.01-0.01-0.88
0.09-0.01150.05770.00-0.01-0.92
0.04-0.00180.02710.00-0.00-0.97
0.03-0.00190.02140.000.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 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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