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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 31, 9:11 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$87.72
Max pain · Fri, Sep 4$86-2.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.5±5.1% by Fri, Sep 4
Put/Call OI0.17584 puts / 3K calls
Call wall$94largest call OI
Put wall$86largest put OI
IV3020.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$922Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$85-3.1%6d
Fri, Aug 14$86-2.0%13d
Fri, Aug 21$80-8.8%20d
Fri, Aug 28$84-4.2%27d
Fri, Sep 4$86-2.0%34d
Fri, Sep 11$87-0.8%41d
Fri, Sep 18$80-8.8%48d
Fri, Oct 16$80-8.8%76d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot86455565758595$2M$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 — 86 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot864573788388932K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KO open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.

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 4

spot864573788388933232
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot65717783899546%20%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 20.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spotflip 70457378838893+$798K$798K
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 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.02810.03170.06-0.02-0.12
0.85-0.02820.03840.07-0.02-0.15
0.81-0.02830.04550.07-0.02-0.19
0.76-0.03840.05280.09-0.03-0.24
0.71-0.03850.05970.09-0.03-0.30
0.64-0.03860.06540.10-0.03-0.36
0.58-0.03870.06940.11-0.03-0.43
0.51-0.03880.07120.11-0.03-0.50
0.44-0.03890.07050.11-0.03-0.57
0.37-0.03900.06750.10-0.03-0.65
0.31-0.03910.06270.10-0.03-0.71
0.25-0.03920.05650.09-0.03-0.77
0.20-0.02930.04950.08-0.02-0.82
0.16-0.02940.04260.07-0.02-0.86
0.13-0.02950.03590.06-0.02-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot45697682.5899620K0
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

spot32.56075849311054K54K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 363K call contracts, 308K 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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