Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:44 AM ET

GME max pain

Spot (delayed)$21.1
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$19-10.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.43±6.8% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.186K puts / 31K calls
Call wall$20largest call OI
Put wall$18largest put OI
IV3043.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $9

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 18$20-5.2%6d
Fri, Sep 25$19-10.0%13d
Fri, Oct 2$19.5-7.6%20d
Fri, Oct 9$18.5-12.3%27d
Fri, Oct 16$19-10.0%34d
Fri, Oct 23$18-14.7%41d
Fri, Oct 30$18.5-12.3%48d
Fri, Dec 18$22+4.3%97d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1951117232935$30M$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 — 19 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot1951418.522.526.530.55K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GME open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot161922252831+2K2K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 30 +2K · 22 +844 · 20 801 · 20.5 +206

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot1951418.522.526.530.52K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot91419253035164%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 43.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 951418.522.526.530.5+$335K$335K
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 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.0117.50.04120.00-0.01-0.05
0.94-0.01180.05340.01-0.01-0.06
0.92-0.0118.50.07090.01-0.01-0.08
0.89-0.01190.09650.01-0.01-0.11
0.84-0.0119.50.13240.01-0.01-0.16
0.77-0.02200.17380.01-0.02-0.23
0.67-0.0220.50.20710.01-0.02-0.33
0.56-0.03210.21980.02-0.03-0.44
0.45-0.0321.50.21110.02-0.03-0.55
0.36-0.03220.18920.02-0.03-0.64
0.29-0.0322.50.16280.01-0.03-0.71
0.23-0.02230.13740.01-0.02-0.77
0.19-0.0223.50.11530.01-0.02-0.81
0.16-0.02240.09720.01-0.02-0.84
0.14-0.0224.50.08310.01-0.02-0.86

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 44 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3131924293624K0
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 — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-0822.1317.93
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot313.51924.53039199K199K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.3M call contracts, 360K 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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