Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 1:14 PM ET

LLY max pain

Spot (delayed)$1,186
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$1,195+0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$62.23±5.2% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI1.487K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$1,620largest call OI
Put wall$700largest put OI
IV3031.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1.3Mper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 28$1,210+2.0%1d
Fri, Sep 4$1,193+0.6%8d
Fri, Sep 11$1,195+0.8%15d
Fri, Sep 18$1,080-8.9%22d
Fri, Sep 25$1,230+3.7%29d
Fri, Oct 2$1,235+4.2%36d
Fri, Oct 16$1,160-2.2%50d
Fri, Nov 20$1,140-3.9%85d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11956708641058125214461640$163M$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 — 1195 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot119567083511001170123013401K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LLY open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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 11

spot11956708351100117012301340297297
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot6708641058125214461640101%28%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot90010901155120512501360+$1.1M$1.1M
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.74-0.7811450.00420.81-0.79-0.26
0.72-0.8111500.00430.84-0.83-0.28
0.70-0.8411550.00450.87-0.85-0.30
0.67-0.8711600.00470.90-0.88-0.33
0.65-0.8911650.00480.93-0.91-0.35
0.63-0.9111700.00490.95-0.93-0.38
0.60-0.9311750.00500.96-0.94-0.40
0.55-0.9511850.00520.99-0.97-0.46
0.52-0.9611900.00520.99-0.97-0.48
0.47-0.9612000.00520.99-0.97-0.53
0.45-0.9512050.00520.99-0.96-0.56
0.42-0.9412100.00510.97-0.95-0.58
0.40-0.9312150.00500.96-0.94-0.61
0.37-0.9112200.00490.94-0.92-0.64
0.35-0.8912250.00480.92-0.90-0.66

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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