Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 23, 3:55 AM ET

MU max pain

Spot (delayed)$1,098
Max pain · Wed, Sep 23$1,030-6.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$27.4±2.5% by Wed, Sep 23
Put/Call OI1.0029K puts / 29K calls
Call wall$1,100largest call OI
Put wall$980largest put OI
IV3064.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$173.5Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $1,065

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Wed, Sep 23$1,030-6.2%today
Fri, Sep 25$990-9.8%2d
Mon, Sep 28$960-12.5%5d
Fri, Oct 2$935-14.8%9d
Mon, Oct 5$1,025-6.6%12d
Fri, Oct 9$965-12.1%16d
Fri, Oct 16$920-16.2%23d
Fri, Oct 23$990-9.8%30d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1030750860970108011901300$642M$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 — 1030 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Wed, Sep 23

spot10307509259751025107511253K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MU open contracts per strike for Wed, Sep 23.

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 · Wed, Sep 23

spot103075092597510251075112554K54K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Sep 23

spot750860970108011901300230%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 58.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Sep 23

spotflip 1065895945995104510951150+$40.1M$40.1M
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 · Wed, Sep 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-3.0910650.00760.15-3.10-0.17
0.79-4.0210700.00860.17-4.02-0.21
0.74-5.1810750.00970.19-5.19-0.26
0.69-6.6310800.01060.20-6.63-0.31
0.64-8.3710850.01130.22-8.37-0.36
0.58-10.1610900.01170.23-10.16-0.42
0.52-11.2410950.01190.23-11.24-0.48
0.46-10.9311000.01170.23-10.93-0.54
0.40-9.5911050.01130.23-9.59-0.60
0.35-7.9911100.01070.21-7.99-0.65
0.30-6.5811150.00990.20-6.58-0.70
0.26-5.4111200.00910.19-5.41-0.74
0.22-4.4411250.00820.17-4.44-0.78
0.19-3.6411300.00730.16-3.64-0.81
0.16-2.9811350.00640.14-2.99-0.84

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

spot18585094010151090117010K0
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

spot5200420740930115058K58K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.5M call contracts, 1.6M 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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