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

JMIA max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.41
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$6-6.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.3±20.3% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.70401 puts / 573 calls
Call wall$6largest call OI
Put wall$4largest put OI
IV3082.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $3

Event risk before this expiration: 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 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

spot624691113$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 — 6 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot624681012205205
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JMIA 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

spot6246810125858
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot35791113152%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 81.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 335791113+$1K$1K
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
0.98-0.0020.01110.00-0.00-0.02
0.96-0.0030.02460.00-0.00-0.03
0.94-0.0040.05450.00-0.00-0.06
0.86-0.0150.13060.01-0.01-0.14
0.65-0.0160.22550.01-0.01-0.34
0.42-0.0170.23950.01-0.01-0.58
0.23-0.0180.18640.01-0.01-0.77
0.14-0.0190.12460.01-0.01-0.87
0.09-0.00100.08550.00-0.00-0.91
0.07-0.00110.06270.00-0.00-0.94
0.05-0.00120.04840.00-0.00-0.95
0.04-0.00130.03880.00-0.00-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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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