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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, Oct 16$80-8.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.8±7.8% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI1.0325K puts / 24K calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3020.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$3.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $87.5

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 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — 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

spot8040567288104120$87M$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, Oct 16

spot80405572.58597.56K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KO open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot80405572.58597.5813813
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot4056728810412084%18%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 21.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 87.5405572.58597.5+$1.6M$1.6M
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.01700.00600.03-0.01-0.04
0.96-0.0172.50.00930.04-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.01750.01400.05-0.01-0.08
0.89-0.0177.50.02060.07-0.01-0.12
0.83-0.02800.02860.10-0.02-0.18
0.75-0.0282.50.03700.13-0.02-0.26
0.65-0.02850.04420.15-0.02-0.36
0.54-0.0287.50.04820.16-0.02-0.48
0.42-0.02900.04770.16-0.02-0.60
0.31-0.0292.50.04300.14-0.02-0.71
0.21-0.01950.03560.12-0.01-0.80
0.15-0.0197.50.02760.09-0.01-0.87
0.10-0.011000.02050.07-0.01-0.92
0.05-0.011050.01070.04-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.001100.00590.03-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 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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