Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 22, 7:43 PM ET

GPN max pain

Spot (delayed)$84.88
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$85+0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.38±7.5% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.993K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$110largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3037.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$77Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $100

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$85+0.1%24d
Fri, Nov 20$75-11.6%59d
Fri, Dec 18$85+0.1%87d
Fri, Jan 15$85+0.1%115d
Fri, Feb 19$75-11.6%150d
Fri, Mar 19$70-17.5%178d
Fri, May 21$60-29.3%241d
Thu, Jun 17$90+6.0%268d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8540567288104120$10M$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 — 85 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot85406080901001201K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GPN open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot85406080901001203030
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot45607590105120144%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 10040608090100120+$70K$70K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.01550.00150.01-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01600.00280.01-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.01650.00520.01-0.02-0.03
0.94-0.02700.01030.03-0.03-0.06
0.89-0.04750.02060.04-0.04-0.12
0.76-0.05800.03760.07-0.06-0.25
0.65-0.0682.50.04610.08-0.06-0.35
0.53-0.07850.05090.09-0.07-0.48
0.41-0.0687.50.04970.09-0.06-0.60
0.30-0.06900.04360.08-0.06-0.72
0.21-0.0592.50.03540.06-0.05-0.80
0.15-0.04950.02750.05-0.04-0.87
0.10-0.0397.50.02080.04-0.03-0.91
0.07-0.031000.01550.03-0.03-0.95
0.04-0.021050.00860.02-0.02-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot406577.5901051301K0
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

spot356077.59512516016K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 51K call contracts, 21K 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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