Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 10:05 AM ET

LLY max pain

Spot (delayed)$1,184
Max pain · Fri, Aug 28$1,210+2.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$26.68±2.3% by Fri, Aug 28
Put/Call OI1.5621K puts / 14K calls
Call wall$1,400largest call OI
Put wall$1,150largest put OI
IV3031.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$27.0Mper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 28$1,210+2.2%1d
Fri, Sep 4$1,193+0.7%8d
Fri, Sep 11$1,195+0.9%15d
Fri, Sep 18$1,080-8.8%22d
Fri, Sep 25$1,230+3.9%29d
Fri, Oct 2$1,235+4.3%36d
Fri, Oct 16$1,160-2.0%50d
Fri, Nov 20$1,140-3.7%85d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1210610792974115613381520$718M$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 — 1210 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot12106107409501150121513201K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LLY open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 28.

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, Aug 28

spot12106107409501150121513201K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot8659961127125813891520138%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot95011001170120012501320+$11.8M$11.8M
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, Aug 28

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.9911400.00400.13-1.00-0.08
0.91-1.2411450.00480.15-1.24-0.10
0.88-1.5311500.00570.18-1.53-0.12
0.82-2.2311600.00780.24-2.23-0.18
0.73-2.9811700.00980.29-2.99-0.27
0.68-3.3111750.01070.32-3.33-0.32
0.62-3.5711800.01140.34-3.60-0.38
0.57-3.7411850.01180.35-3.77-0.44
0.51-3.8011900.01200.35-3.85-0.50
0.45-3.7511950.01200.35-3.80-0.56
0.39-3.5812000.01160.34-3.64-0.62
0.28-2.9912100.01010.30-3.06-0.72
0.23-2.6312150.00920.27-2.68-0.77
0.19-2.2612200.00820.24-2.29-0.81
0.13-1.5912300.00610.19-1.58-0.88

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot800110511701225128514601K0
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

spot3207108701030122014409K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 160K call contracts, 206K 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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