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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 · Mon, Aug 10$325-3.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$15.8±4.7% by Mon, Aug 10
Put/Call OI0.50395 puts / 789 calls
Call wall$330largest call OI
Put wall$310largest put OI
IV3031.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$946Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $285

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

spot325265287309331353375$3M$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 — 325 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Mon, Aug 10

spot325265295315335355313313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GOOGL open contracts per strike for Mon, Aug 10.

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 · Mon, Aug 10

spot3252652953153353559999
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Mon, Aug 10

spot26528730933135337559%28%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Mon, Aug 10

spotflip 285265295315335355+$506K$506K
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 · Mon, Aug 10

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.083000.00470.07-0.09-0.05
0.92-0.113050.00660.09-0.12-0.08
0.89-0.153100.00900.12-0.15-0.11
0.84-0.193150.01180.16-0.20-0.16
0.77-0.243200.01480.19-0.24-0.23
0.69-0.283250.01750.22-0.28-0.31
0.60-0.303300.01940.24-0.30-0.41
0.50-0.313350.02020.25-0.31-0.51
0.40-0.293400.01970.24-0.30-0.61
0.30-0.263450.01800.22-0.27-0.70
0.22-0.223500.01540.19-0.23-0.78
0.16-0.183550.01240.15-0.19-0.85
0.11-0.143600.00960.12-0.15-0.90
0.08-0.113650.00730.10-0.12-0.93
0.04-0.073750.00420.06-0.08-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 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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