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

MU max pain

Spot (delayed)$1,098
Max pain · Mon, Sep 28$960-12.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$56.18±5.1% by Mon, Sep 28
Put/Call OI0.335K puts / 17K calls
Call wall$1,100largest call OI
Put wall$950largest put OI
IV3064.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$48.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $900

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

spot9608009201040116012801400$532M$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 — 960 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Mon, Sep 28

spot9608009259751025107511502K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MU open contracts per strike for Mon, Sep 28.

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 · Mon, Sep 28

spot9608009259751025107511507K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Mon, Sep 28

spot8009201040116012801400108%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 51.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Mon, Sep 28

spotflip 900800925975102510751150+$13.6M$13.6M
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 · Mon, Sep 28

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.69-2.1410650.00500.50-2.15-0.31
0.66-2.2210700.00520.52-2.23-0.34
0.63-2.3010750.00530.53-2.30-0.37
0.60-2.3610800.00540.54-2.36-0.40
0.58-2.4110850.00550.55-2.41-0.42
0.55-2.4410900.00550.56-2.45-0.45
0.52-2.4710950.00550.56-2.47-0.48
0.49-2.4811000.00550.56-2.48-0.51
0.47-2.4811050.00550.56-2.48-0.53
0.44-2.4711100.00540.56-2.47-0.56
0.41-2.4511150.00530.55-2.45-0.59
0.39-2.4111200.00520.54-2.42-0.61
0.26-2.0411500.00430.45-2.04-0.74
0.24-1.9611550.00410.44-1.96-0.76
0.16-1.5311800.00310.34-1.54-0.84

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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