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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 1:01 AM ET

GME max pain

Spot (delayed)$22.1
Max pain · Fri, Jul 31$21.5-2.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.53±2.4% by Fri, Jul 31
Put/Call OI0.1714K puts / 81K calls
Call wall$22largest call OI
Put wall$21largest put OI
IV3030.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$8.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $16

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Jul 31$21.5-2.7%2d
Fri, Aug 7$22-0.5%9d
Fri, Aug 14$22-0.5%16d
Fri, Aug 21$21-5.0%23d
Fri, Aug 28$21.5-2.7%30d
Fri, Sep 4$21.5-2.7%37d
Fri, Sep 18$21-5.0%51d
Fri, Oct 16$22-0.5%79d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot21.5131722263135$86M$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 — 21.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spot21.513182124273214K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GME open contracts per strike for Fri, Jul 31.

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, Jul 31

spot21.513182124273212K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spot171922242729127%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jul 31

spotflip 16131821242732+$3.6M$3.6M
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, Jul 31

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0018.50.01220.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.00190.01750.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0019.50.02610.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01200.04160.00-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.0120.50.07410.00-0.01-0.03
0.94-0.01210.15620.00-0.01-0.06
0.84-0.0321.50.34890.01-0.03-0.16
0.61-0.04220.58550.01-0.04-0.39
0.33-0.0522.50.50900.01-0.05-0.67
0.17-0.03230.30370.01-0.03-0.83
0.09-0.0223.50.17430.00-0.02-0.91
0.06-0.02240.10800.00-0.02-0.94
0.04-0.0124.50.07280.00-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.01250.05210.00-0.01-0.97
0.03-0.0125.50.03890.00-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1317.520.523.526.53118K0
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.

Max pain history

History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot31620242836154K154K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 983K call contracts, 330K 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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