Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 1:41 PM ET

GPN max pain

Spot (delayed)$87.7
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$80-8.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.15±7.0% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI1.9627K puts / 14K calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$50largest put OI
IV3039.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.5Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $90

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$80-8.8%13d
Fri, Sep 18$80-8.8%41d
Fri, Oct 16$80-8.8%69d
Fri, Nov 20$75-14.5%104d
Fri, Dec 18$77.5-11.6%132d
Fri, Jan 15$85-3.1%160d
Fri, Feb 19$75-14.5%195d
Fri, Mar 19$70-20.2%223d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8035526986103120$68M$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

spot80355567.577.59511516K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GPN 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

spot80355567.577.595115322322
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot45607590105120128%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 40.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 904562.572.585105+$1.5M$1.5M
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 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.0167.50.00460.01-0.02-0.02
0.97-0.02700.00640.01-0.03-0.03
0.95-0.0372.50.00920.02-0.03-0.04
0.93-0.03750.01340.02-0.04-0.07
0.90-0.0477.50.01960.03-0.05-0.10
0.85-0.06800.02830.04-0.06-0.15
0.67-0.09850.05000.07-0.09-0.33
0.40-0.09900.05360.07-0.09-0.60
0.19-0.07950.03600.05-0.07-0.81
0.09-0.041000.01970.03-0.04-0.91
0.04-0.031050.01030.02-0.02-0.96
0.02-0.011100.00540.01-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.011150.00280.01-0.01-1.00
0.01-0.011200.00150.00-0.01-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot356070809511511K0
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

spot356077.510013517017K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 64K call contracts, 49K 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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