Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 20, 11:59 PM ET

MYRG max pain

Spot (delayed)$279.28
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$320+14.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$32.6±11.7% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.50148 puts / 294 calls
Call wall$550largest call OI
Put wall$280largest put OI
IV3052.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$14Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $230
Earnings · expectedWed, Oct 28usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$320+14.6%25d
Fri, Jan 15$490+75.4%116d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Oct 28)
Fri, Apr 16$250-10.5%207d
Fri, Dec 17$200-28.4%452d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot320155264373482591700$8M$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 — 320 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot3201552403204104906005151
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MYRG open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot32015524032041049060099
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot165272379486593700184%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 230155240320410490600+$19K$19K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.152100.00240.11-0.15-0.07
0.90-0.172200.00310.13-0.17-0.10
0.87-0.192300.00400.16-0.19-0.13
0.83-0.212400.00510.19-0.21-0.17
0.78-0.242500.00650.23-0.24-0.22
0.71-0.262600.00800.26-0.26-0.29
0.63-0.282700.00920.29-0.28-0.38
0.53-0.292800.00990.31-0.29-0.47
0.43-0.282900.00970.30-0.29-0.57
0.35-0.273000.00890.29-0.28-0.66
0.28-0.263100.00780.26-0.26-0.73
0.23-0.243200.00670.23-0.24-0.78
0.18-0.223300.00570.21-0.23-0.82
0.15-0.203400.00480.18-0.21-0.85
0.13-0.193500.00410.16-0.19-0.88

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot155240320400480560570
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

spot135185270370470570495495
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 514 call contracts, 820 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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