Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 11:43 PM ET

MUR max pain

Spot (delayed)$34.79
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$30-13.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.7±22.1% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.31747 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$35largest call OI
Put wall$25largest put OI
IV3038.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$70Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $20

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$32.5-6.6%7d
Fri, Sep 18$35+0.6%35d
Fri, Oct 16$32.5-6.6%63d
Fri, Jan 15$30-13.8%154d
Fri, Jan 21$32.5-6.6%525d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot30152433425160$5M$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 — 30 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MUR open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot301522.53037.54552.511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot152433425160100%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 43.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 201522.53037.54552.5+$24K$24K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.990.0017.50.00540.01-0.00-0.03
0.96-0.00200.00990.02-0.00-0.05
0.94-0.0022.50.01170.03-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.01250.01800.04-0.01-0.11
0.83-0.0127.50.02590.06-0.01-0.17
0.75-0.01300.03390.07-0.01-0.26
0.65-0.0132.50.03990.08-0.01-0.36
0.55-0.01350.04240.09-0.01-0.46
0.45-0.0137.50.04170.09-0.01-0.56
0.36-0.01400.03880.08-0.01-0.65
0.29-0.0142.50.03470.08-0.01-0.72
0.24-0.01450.03040.07-0.01-0.78
0.19-0.0147.50.02620.06-0.01-0.82
0.15-0.01500.02250.05-0.01-0.86
0.13-0.0152.50.01920.05-0.01-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2532.54047.5552K0
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

spot1522.53037.54552.52K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 11K call contracts, 3K 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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