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

GPN max pain

Spot (delayed)$84.88
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$75-11.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$17.95±21.1% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.39190 puts / 491 calls
Call wall$120largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3037.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$39Kper 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

spot7535567798119140$1M$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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot75355567.585110159159
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GPN open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot75355567.58511055
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot3556779811914068%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 95355567.585110+$17K$17K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.0162.50.00730.10-0.02-0.11
0.87-0.01650.00860.12-0.02-0.13
0.85-0.0167.50.00980.13-0.02-0.16
0.82-0.02700.01120.15-0.02-0.19
0.79-0.0272.50.01260.16-0.02-0.22
0.75-0.02750.01390.17-0.02-0.26
0.71-0.0277.50.01510.19-0.03-0.30
0.58-0.03850.01760.21-0.03-0.43
0.50-0.03900.01820.22-0.03-0.52
0.41-0.03950.01780.21-0.03-0.61
0.34-0.031000.01670.20-0.02-0.69
0.27-0.021050.01510.18-0.02-0.76
0.22-0.021100.01340.16-0.02-0.83
0.17-0.021150.01150.14-0.02-0.88
0.14-0.021200.00980.12-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 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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