Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 15, 11:23 PM ET

GMED max pain

Spot (delayed)$85.9
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$80-6.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.95±3.4% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.291K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$72.5largest put OI
IV3030.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $80

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$80-6.9%6d
Fri, Sep 18$82.5-4.0%34d
Fri, Dec 18$75-12.7%125d
Fri, Mar 19$85-1.0%216d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8050637689102115$15M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot805067.57582.5901103K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GMED 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

spot805067.57582.5901102626
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot7076828894100103%17%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 806572.58087.5100+$2.4M$2.4M
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
1.00-0.0067.50.00060.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.00700.00130.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0172.50.00280.00-0.01-0.01
0.99-0.01750.00630.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.0277.50.01430.01-0.02-0.03
0.93-0.04800.03260.02-0.04-0.07
0.82-0.0782.50.06760.03-0.07-0.18
0.60-0.10850.10370.05-0.10-0.40
0.35-0.1087.50.09730.04-0.10-0.65
0.17-0.07900.06190.03-0.07-0.83
0.04-0.03950.01730.01-0.03-0.96
0.01-0.011000.00490.00-0.01-0.99
0.00-0.001100.00060.00-0.00-1.00
0.00-0.001150.00020.000.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot40658092.51101353K0
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

spot405572.58597.51203K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K 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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