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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 18$80-8.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.4±6.2% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.7443K puts / 58K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$77.5largest put OI
IV3020.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$14.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $82.5

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · 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 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

spot8033517088107125$236M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot8032.547.562.577.592.512513K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KO 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

spot8032.547.562.577.592.51251K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot4863799411012580%19%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 20.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 82.54557.57082.595125+$4.8M$4.8M
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
0.99-0.00700.00370.01-0.00-0.02
0.98-0.0172.50.00610.02-0.01-0.03
0.96-0.01750.01020.03-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.0177.50.01690.04-0.01-0.08
0.88-0.01800.02720.06-0.02-0.14
0.80-0.0282.50.04040.09-0.02-0.22
0.69-0.03850.05370.11-0.03-0.34
0.54-0.0387.50.06170.13-0.03-0.49
0.39-0.03900.06010.12-0.03-0.64
0.26-0.0292.50.05020.10-0.02-0.76
0.16-0.02950.03710.08-0.01-0.85
0.10-0.0197.50.02530.06-0.01-0.91
0.06-0.011000.01660.04-0.01-0.95
0.03-0.001050.00740.02-0.00-0.98
0.01-0.001200.00230.01-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 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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