Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 17, 10:14 PM ET

GLPI max pain

Spot (delayed)$42.25
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$45+6.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.5±8.3% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.21848 puts / 4K calls
Call wall$52.5largest call OI
Put wall$42.5largest put OI
IV3019.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$38Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $30

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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$45+6.5%4d
Fri, Sep 18$45+6.5%32d
Fri, Oct 16$45+6.5%60d
Fri, Jan 15$47.5+12.4%151d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot45283543505865$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 — 45 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot4527.53542.55057.53K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GLPI open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot4527.53542.55057.59191
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot28354350586583%22%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 24.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 3027.53542.55057.5+$128K$128K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0027.50.00370.00-0.01-0.03
0.98-0.00300.00640.01-0.01-0.05
0.97-0.0032.50.01150.01-0.01-0.07
0.95-0.01350.02210.02-0.01-0.10
0.91-0.0137.50.04610.03-0.01-0.17
0.78-0.01400.09860.05-0.01-0.31
0.48-0.0142.50.13390.07-0.01-0.58
0.24-0.01450.08280.05-0.01-0.79
0.14-0.0147.50.04850.04-0.01-0.89
0.09-0.01500.03100.03-0.01-0.93
0.06-0.0152.50.02120.02-0.00-0.95
0.05-0.01550.01520.02-0.00-0.97
0.04-0.0057.50.01140.01-0.00-0.97
0.03-0.00600.00880.01-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 15 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3037.542.547.552.557.53K0
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

spot2532.54047.555653K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 8K call contracts, 3K 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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