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

GPN max pain

Spot (delayed)$84.88
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$85+0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$15.05±17.7% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.359K puts / 24K calls
Call wall$100largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3037.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $95

Event risk before this expiration: 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 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — 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%23d
Fri, Nov 20$75-11.6%58d
Fri, Dec 18$85+0.1%86d
Fri, Jan 15$85+0.1%114d
Fri, Feb 19$75-11.6%149d
Fri, Mar 19$70-17.5%177d
Fri, May 21$60-29.3%240d
Thu, Jun 17$90+6.0%267d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot85356391119147175$168M$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, Jan 15

spot853562.577.51051351659K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GPN open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot853562.577.5105135165300300
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot35639111914717589%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 953562.577.5105135165+$1.2M$1.2M
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.01650.00870.09-0.02-0.11
0.87-0.0267.50.01040.10-0.02-0.14
0.84-0.02700.01210.12-0.02-0.17
0.80-0.0272.50.01400.13-0.02-0.20
0.76-0.03750.01580.15-0.03-0.24
0.72-0.0377.50.01740.16-0.03-0.29
0.67-0.03800.01890.17-0.03-0.34
0.57-0.03850.02080.19-0.03-0.44
0.47-0.03900.02110.19-0.03-0.55
0.37-0.03950.02010.18-0.03-0.65
0.29-0.031000.01800.16-0.03-0.73
0.22-0.021050.01560.14-0.03-0.81
0.17-0.021100.01300.12-0.02-0.87
0.13-0.021150.01070.10-0.02-0.92
0.10-0.011200.00860.08-0.02-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 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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