Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 17, 1:22 AM ET

MSTR max pain

Spot (delayed)$127.58
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$122-4.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.28±4.9% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.63298K puts / 476K calls
Call wall$145largest call OI
Put wall$80largest put OI
IV3068.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$31.4Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $136

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 18$122-4.4%2d
Fri, Sep 25$129+1.1%9d
Fri, Oct 2$130+1.9%16d
Fri, Oct 9$135+5.8%23d
Fri, Oct 16$100-21.6%30d
Fri, Oct 23$134+5.0%37d
Fri, Oct 30$136+6.6%44d
Fri, Nov 20$135+5.8%65d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1225186367548729910$32.6B$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 — 122 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot12257012013615026035K35K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MSTR open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-152026-09-16

spot5095125138146200+4K4K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 115 +4K · 120 +4K · 124 +4K · 250 3K

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot12257012013615026019K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot6094128162196230322%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 81.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 1365590123134142160+$9.9M$9.9M
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, Sep 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.061050.00360.00-0.06-0.02
0.97-0.101100.00720.01-0.10-0.03
0.93-0.211150.01630.01-0.21-0.07
0.81-0.501200.03560.03-0.50-0.19
0.69-0.731230.04760.03-0.73-0.32
0.64-0.791240.05050.04-0.79-0.37
0.58-0.831250.05240.04-0.83-0.42
0.33-0.771300.04680.03-0.78-0.67
0.29-0.721310.04370.03-0.73-0.71
0.25-0.661320.04040.03-0.66-0.75
0.22-0.591330.03690.03-0.59-0.79
0.18-0.511340.03340.03-0.52-0.82
0.15-0.441350.02980.02-0.44-0.85
0.13-0.371360.02630.02-0.37-0.87
0.09-0.261380.01990.01-0.26-0.91

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

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot58711513214926032K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0608-1708-2609-0409-15143.7992.62
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot57513617529059088K88K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.6M call contracts, 1.2M 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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