Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 18, 3:46 PM ET

GLNG max pain

Spot (delayed)$52.07
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$50-4.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.53±4.8% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI2.165K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$55largest call OI
Put wall$48largest put OI
IV3030.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$389Kper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$50-4.0%3d
Fri, Sep 18$50-4.0%31d
Fri, Nov 20$50-4.0%94d
Fri, Dec 18$50-4.0%122d
Fri, Jan 15$37-28.9%150d
Fri, Mar 19$45-13.6%213d
Fri, Dec 17$40-23.2%486d
Fri, Jan 21$45-13.6%521d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot50404448525660$4M$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 — 50 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot5040434649602K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GLNG open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.

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, Aug 21

spot50404346496044
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot404448525660190%39%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot4043464960+$436K$436K
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, Aug 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.03430.01040.00-0.03-0.02
0.97-0.03440.01340.00-0.04-0.03
0.97-0.04450.01760.00-0.04-0.03
0.96-0.04460.02370.00-0.04-0.04
0.94-0.05470.03280.01-0.05-0.06
0.93-0.06480.04720.01-0.06-0.07
0.90-0.07490.07120.01-0.07-0.10
0.84-0.08500.11350.01-0.08-0.16
0.14-0.09550.08620.01-0.09-0.86
0.05-0.06600.02340.01-0.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 strikes around the money — all 13 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot254246507026K0
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

spot20323844508031K31K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 100K call contracts, 39K 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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