Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 3:48 AM ET

GPI max pain

Spot (delayed)$263.01
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$290+10.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$50.85±19.3% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.61427 puts / 700 calls
Call wall$330largest call OI
Put wall$250largest put OI
IV3046.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$38Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $330

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$320+21.7%7d
Fri, Sep 18$290+10.3%35d
Fri, Oct 16$310+17.9%63d
Fri, Nov 20$290+10.3%98d
Fri, Jan 15$290+10.3%154d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot290155264373482591700$24M$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 — 290 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot290155195270350430560239239
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GPI open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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, Nov 20

spot29015519527035043056011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot155264373482591700100%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 330155190250320400500+$75K$75K
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, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.061950.00260.26-0.07-0.11
0.87-0.062000.00280.29-0.08-0.13
0.83-0.072100.00340.34-0.09-0.16
0.79-0.092200.00410.39-0.10-0.20
0.75-0.102300.00470.43-0.10-0.25
0.69-0.112400.00530.48-0.11-0.30
0.64-0.112500.00580.51-0.12-0.36
0.57-0.122600.00620.53-0.12-0.43
0.51-0.122700.00640.54-0.12-0.49
0.45-0.122800.00640.54-0.12-0.56
0.39-0.122900.00620.52-0.11-0.62
0.34-0.113000.00590.50-0.10-0.67
0.28-0.103100.00560.46-0.10-0.72
0.24-0.093200.00510.43-0.09-0.77
0.20-0.083300.00460.39-0.07-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1652603203804405101150
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

spot135185270370470600269269
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K call contracts, 1K 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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