Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 11:19 AM ET

GE max pain

Spot (delayed)$374.5
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$360-3.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$28.75±7.7% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI2.41367 puts / 152 calls
Call wall$375largest call OI
Put wall$355largest put OI
IV3030.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$210Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $230

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · 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 7$367.5-1.9%today
Fri, Aug 14$362.5-3.2%7d
Fri, Aug 21$350-6.5%14d
Fri, Aug 28$345-7.9%21d
Fri, Sep 4$360-3.9%28d
Fri, Sep 11$360-3.9%35d
Fri, Sep 18$330-11.9%42d
Fri, Sep 25$355-5.2%49d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot360215260305350395440$5M$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 — 360 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot360215320345370395420254254
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GE 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

spot3602153203453703954201111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot23027231435639844086%30%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 230215320345370395420+$319K$319K
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
0.85-0.113400.00610.28-0.12-0.15
0.82-0.133450.00700.31-0.14-0.18
0.78-0.143500.00800.35-0.15-0.22
0.74-0.163550.00880.39-0.17-0.27
0.69-0.173600.00960.42-0.18-0.31
0.64-0.183650.01030.44-0.19-0.36
0.59-0.193700.01080.46-0.20-0.42
0.53-0.193750.01110.47-0.20-0.47
0.48-0.193800.01110.47-0.20-0.53
0.42-0.193850.01100.46-0.19-0.59
0.37-0.183900.01060.45-0.18-0.64
0.32-0.173950.01000.42-0.17-0.69
0.28-0.164000.00940.39-0.16-0.74
0.23-0.154050.00860.36-0.15-0.78
0.20-0.144100.00770.33-0.14-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1602403053403704002K0
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

spot14019026033537043012K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 101K call contracts, 108K 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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