Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 2:39 AM ET

INBX max pain

Spot (delayed)$98.36
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$110+11.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$15.9±16.2% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.31468 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$115largest call OI
Put wall$110largest put OI
IV30101.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$94Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$110+11.8%9d
Fri, Sep 18$90-8.5%37d
Fri, Nov 20$95-3.4%100d
Fri, Jan 15$45-54.2%156d
Fri, Feb 19$85-13.6%191d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1103574113152191230$15M$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 — 110 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot110356595125155190315315
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)INBX 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

spot1103565951251551901010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot5086122158194230477%106%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 127.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 50356595125155190+$44K$44K
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
0.91-0.30650.00460.03-0.30-0.09
0.89-0.32700.00600.03-0.33-0.11
0.86-0.34750.00770.03-0.35-0.14
0.83-0.36800.01010.04-0.37-0.17
0.78-0.39850.01300.05-0.39-0.23
0.70-0.41900.01640.05-0.41-0.30
0.61-0.44950.01910.06-0.44-0.39
0.52-0.461000.01980.06-0.46-0.49
0.43-0.471050.01860.06-0.47-0.57
0.36-0.481100.01660.06-0.48-0.64
0.31-0.481150.01460.06-0.48-0.69
0.27-0.481200.01280.05-0.48-0.73
0.24-0.471250.01130.05-0.47-0.76
0.22-0.471300.01010.04-0.47-0.79
0.20-0.461350.00910.04-0.46-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot30801101401702003150
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

spot2.522.560100140180840840
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 895 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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