Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 12, 11:33 PM ET

JMIA max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.41
Max pain · Fri, Aug 28$5-22.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.9±14.0% by Fri, Aug 28
Put/Call OI0.46321 puts / 699 calls
Call wall$8largest call OI
Put wall$5largest put OI
IV3082.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 14$6.5+1.4%1d
Fri, Aug 21$7+9.2%8d
Fri, Aug 28$5-22.0%15d
Fri, Sep 4$3-53.2%22d
Fri, Sep 11$2-68.8%29d
Fri, Sep 18$6-6.4%36d
Fri, Sep 25$3-53.2%43d
Fri, Nov 20$8+24.8%99d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot513681113$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 — 5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot51467.5911279279
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JMIA open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 28.

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 28

spot51467.5911201201
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot24691113323%60%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 83.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spotflip 51467.5911+$2K$2K
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 28

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0110.00480.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.0120.01300.00-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.0130.02800.00-0.01-0.04
0.93-0.0140.05840.00-0.01-0.07
0.87-0.0150.13320.00-0.01-0.13
0.80-0.015.50.21150.00-0.01-0.20
0.68-0.0160.30860.01-0.01-0.32
0.50-0.016.50.35560.01-0.01-0.50
0.34-0.0170.32100.01-0.01-0.66
0.23-0.017.50.25050.00-0.01-0.77
0.17-0.0180.18900.00-0.01-0.83
0.13-0.018.50.14610.00-0.01-0.87
0.11-0.0190.11700.00-0.01-0.89
0.08-0.01100.08150.00-0.01-0.92
0.07-0.0110.50.07010.00-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1581218248K0
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

spot15811152116K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 66K call contracts, 26K 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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