Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 5, 11:41 PM ET

MA max pain

Spot (delayed)$573
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$565-1.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.75±1.7% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI1.164K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$600largest call OI
Put wall$580largest put OI
IV3023.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $575

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$565-1.4%2d
Fri, Aug 14$550-4.0%9d
Fri, Aug 21$530-7.5%16d
Fri, Aug 28$555-3.1%23d
Fri, Sep 4$555-3.1%30d
Fri, Sep 11$525-8.4%37d
Fri, Sep 18$525-8.4%44d
Fri, Oct 16$530-7.5%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot565310378446514582650$80M$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 — 565 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot565310420500540567.5595793793
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MA open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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 7

spot565310420500540567.55959090
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot450490530570610650112%16%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 28.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 575435500537.5562.5585615+$1.9M$1.9M
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 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.565550.01450.08-0.56-0.11
0.85-0.70557.50.01790.10-0.70-0.15
0.81-0.865600.02170.12-0.86-0.19
0.75-1.02562.50.02570.14-1.03-0.25
0.69-1.175650.02940.15-1.18-0.32
0.61-1.29567.50.03220.16-1.30-0.39
0.53-1.355700.03370.17-1.37-0.47
0.44-1.34572.50.03340.17-1.36-0.56
0.36-1.255750.03160.16-1.28-0.64
0.29-1.12577.50.02840.15-1.15-0.71
0.23-0.965800.02470.13-0.98-0.78
0.18-0.80582.50.02090.11-0.81-0.83
0.14-0.665850.01730.10-0.66-0.87
0.11-0.53587.50.01410.08-0.52-0.90
0.09-0.425900.01140.07-0.41-0.92

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

spot370465522.55555856202K0
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

spot2704004705355906806K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 75K call contracts, 70K 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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