Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 11:29 PM ET

LOGI max pain

Spot (delayed)$104.53
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$105+0.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.95±11.4% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.461K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$110largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV3030.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$295Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

Event risk before this expiration: 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 21$105+0.4%7d
Fri, Sep 18$110+5.2%35d
Fri, Oct 16$105+0.4%63d
Fri, Nov 20$110+5.2%98d
Fri, Dec 18$105+0.4%126d
Fri, Mar 19$105+0.4%217d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot105507192113134155$9M$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 — 105 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot1055080100120140493493
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LOGI 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

spot105508010012014044
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot507192113134155119%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 1105080100120140+$107K$107K
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
0.99650.00100.01-0.01-0.02
0.98750.00310.02-0.01-0.04
0.96-0.01800.00530.03-0.02-0.07
0.93-0.01850.00890.06-0.02-0.10
0.88-0.02900.01420.09-0.03-0.16
0.79-0.03950.02100.12-0.04-0.25
0.67-0.041000.02730.15-0.04-0.37
0.53-0.041050.03000.17-0.04-0.51
0.38-0.041100.02810.16-0.04-0.64
0.27-0.041150.02340.14-0.03-0.75
0.18-0.031200.01810.12-0.02-0.83
0.13-0.031250.01360.09-0.02-0.89
0.09-0.021300.01010.07-0.01-0.92
0.07-0.021350.00750.06-0.00-0.95
0.05-0.011400.00560.04-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot70901101301501702K0
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

spot4570951201451703K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 17K call contracts, 14K 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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