Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 29, 12:25 AM ET

GNTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$22.67
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$22.5-0.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.88±3.9% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.70474 puts / 678 calls
Call wall$25largest call OI
Put wall$20largest put OI
IV3021.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$722per 1% move · flip ≈ $15

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · 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$22.5-0.7%21d
Fri, Oct 16$22.5-0.7%49d
Fri, Dec 18$17.5-22.8%112d
Fri, Mar 19$27.5+21.3%203d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot22.5131722263135$1M$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 — 22.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot22.512.517.522.527.532.5306306
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GNTX open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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, Sep 18

spot22.512.517.522.527.532.53030
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot18202325283072%15%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 19.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 1512.517.522.527.532.5+$14K$14K
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 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0112.50.00560.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.01150.01170.00-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.0117.50.02650.01-0.01-0.05
0.89-0.01200.07300.01-0.01-0.11
0.62-0.0122.50.31700.02-0.01-0.39
0.11-0.01250.11510.01-0.01-0.92
0.05-0.0127.50.04160.01-0.01-0.97
0.03-0.01300.02200.00-0.00-0.98
0.02-0.0132.50.01390.00-0.00-0.99
0.02-0.00350.00980.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot12.517.522.527.532.53740
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

spot12.517.522.527.532.5394394
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K call contracts, 740 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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