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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 2:17 AM ET

GOOGL max pain

Spot (delayed)$335.88
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$335-0.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14.88±4.4% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI0.8623K puts / 27K calls
Call wall$350largest call OI
Put wall$185largest put OI
IV3031.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$8.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $350

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Wed, Jul 29$325-3.2%today
Fri, Jul 31$327.5-2.5%2d
Mon, Aug 3$320-4.7%5d
Wed, Aug 5$325-3.2%7d
Fri, Aug 7$335-0.3%9d
Mon, Aug 10$325-3.2%12d
Fri, Aug 14$337.5+0.5%16d
Fri, Aug 21$340+1.2%23d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot335160234308382456530$425M$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 — 335 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot335160230305337.5362.54053K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GOOGL open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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 7

spot335160230305337.5362.54052K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot200266332398464530124%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 350195280322.5345367.5410+$3.5M$3.5M
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 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.223150.01190.13-0.22-0.15
0.78-0.283200.01530.16-0.28-0.22
0.74-0.30322.50.01700.18-0.31-0.26
0.70-0.333250.01850.19-0.33-0.30
0.65-0.35327.50.01980.20-0.35-0.35
0.60-0.363300.02080.21-0.37-0.40
0.55-0.37332.50.02140.22-0.38-0.46
0.49-0.373350.02160.22-0.38-0.51
0.44-0.37337.50.02150.22-0.37-0.56
0.39-0.363400.02090.21-0.36-0.62
0.34-0.34342.50.02000.20-0.34-0.67
0.29-0.323450.01870.19-0.32-0.72
0.25-0.29347.50.01730.18-0.29-0.76
0.21-0.263500.01570.16-0.26-0.80
0.17-0.23352.50.01400.14-0.24-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot150292.532034537040014K0
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

spot519527033540051090K90K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.9M call contracts, 1.3M 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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