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

LOGI max pain

Spot (delayed)$104.53
Max pain · Fri, Dec 18$105+0.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.25±17.5% by Fri, Dec 18
Put/Call OI0.31876 puts / 3K calls
Call wall$105largest call OI
Put wall$105largest put OI
IV3030.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$315Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $100

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 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — 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

spot1055078106134162190$20M$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, Dec 18

spot1055075100125150190698698
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LOGI open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 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, Dec 18

spot10550751001251501901212
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 18

spot507810613416219079%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 18

spotflip 1005075100125150190+$104K$104K
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, Dec 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.01700.00380.05-0.01-0.06
0.94-0.01750.00580.07-0.02-0.08
0.90-0.02800.00810.10-0.02-0.12
0.85-0.02850.01080.14-0.02-0.17
0.78-0.03900.01320.18-0.03-0.23
0.71-0.03950.01540.21-0.03-0.30
0.62-0.031000.01710.23-0.03-0.39
0.53-0.031050.01790.24-0.04-0.48
0.45-0.031100.01790.24-0.03-0.57
0.37-0.031150.01700.23-0.03-0.65
0.30-0.031200.01550.21-0.03-0.72
0.24-0.031250.01380.19-0.03-0.79
0.19-0.021300.01190.17-0.02-0.84
0.15-0.021350.01020.14-0.02-0.88
0.12-0.021400.00860.12-0.01-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 26 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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