Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 11:41 AM ET

INCY max pain

Spot (delayed)$119.48
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$110-7.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.2±11.0% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI2.839K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$130largest call OI
Put wall$100largest put OI
IV3034.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$729Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $85

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$115-3.7%14d
Fri, Sep 18$110-7.9%42d
Fri, Dec 18$110-7.9%133d
Fri, Jan 15$100-16.3%161d
Fri, Mar 19$120+0.4%224d
Fri, Dec 17$75-37.2%497d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot110557697118139160$45M$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, Sep 18

spot11055801001201401605K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)INCY open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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, Sep 18

spot1105580100120140160268268
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot557697118139160147%23%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 856085105125145+$733K$733K
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, Sep 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.01850.00250.02-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.01900.00380.03-0.02-0.04
0.95-0.02950.00590.05-0.02-0.06
0.92-0.031000.00890.07-0.03-0.09
0.87-0.041050.01320.09-0.04-0.14
0.79-0.051100.01850.12-0.05-0.22
0.69-0.061150.02370.15-0.06-0.33
0.56-0.071200.02670.17-0.07-0.46
0.43-0.071250.02640.16-0.07-0.60
0.31-0.061300.02330.15-0.06-0.72
0.23-0.051350.01910.13-0.06-0.81
0.16-0.041400.01500.10-0.05-0.88
0.12-0.041450.01150.08-0.04-0.93
0.08-0.031500.00880.07-0.04-0.97
0.06-0.021550.00670.05-0.04-0.99

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

spot457592.51101351601K0
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

spot305070901201606K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 10K call contracts, 15K 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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