Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 20, 10:37 PM ET

KO max pain

Spot (delayed)$88.21
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$88-0.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.6±1.8% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.244K puts / 18K calls
Call wall$89largest call OI
Put wall$87largest put OI
IV3017.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$14.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $89
Earnings · expectedTue, Oct 20usually before the open

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 25$88-0.2%5d
Fri, Oct 2$88-0.2%12d
Fri, Oct 9$88-0.2%19d
Fri, Oct 16$87.5-0.8%26d
Fri, Oct 23$85-3.6%33d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Oct 20)
Fri, Oct 30$87-1.4%40d
Fri, Nov 20$85-3.6%61d
Fri, Dec 18$77.5-12.1%89d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot886068778594102$21M$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 — 88 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot886078838893987K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KO open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

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 25

spot886078838893982K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot758086919710252%13%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 16.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 89607883889398+$9.9M$9.9M
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 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.00810.00650.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.01820.01010.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01830.01740.01-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.01840.03210.01-0.01-0.04
0.93-0.02850.05990.02-0.02-0.07
0.86-0.03860.10540.03-0.03-0.14
0.73-0.05870.16170.04-0.05-0.27
0.55-0.06880.19990.05-0.06-0.46
0.35-0.05890.18900.05-0.06-0.66
0.20-0.04900.13760.03-0.04-0.82
0.10-0.03910.08320.02-0.03-0.92
0.05-0.01920.04580.01-0.01-0.96
0.02-0.01930.02410.01-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.00940.01270.00-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.00950.00740.00-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot70838893988K0
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

spot32.557.577.5869410539K39K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 308K call contracts, 276K 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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