Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 7, 3:44 AM ET

NFLX max pain

Spot (delayed)$73.6
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$72-2.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.32±8.6% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.681K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$62largest put OI
IV3033.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$204Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $80

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$72-2.2%today
Fri, Aug 14$70-4.9%7d
Fri, Aug 21$75+1.9%14d
Fri, Aug 28$71-3.5%21d
Fri, Sep 4$72-2.2%28d
Fri, Sep 11$72-2.2%35d
Fri, Sep 18$80+8.7%42d
Fri, Oct 16$75+1.9%70d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot724558718497110$6M$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 — 72 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot72456369758195637637
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NFLX open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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, Sep 11

spot72456369758195523523
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot455871849711097%23%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 34.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 80456369758195+$136K$136K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.02670.03110.06-0.03-0.16
0.81-0.03680.03550.06-0.03-0.20
0.77-0.03690.03970.07-0.03-0.24
0.72-0.03700.04340.08-0.04-0.28
0.68-0.04710.04650.08-0.04-0.33
0.63-0.04720.04880.09-0.04-0.38
0.57-0.04730.05030.09-0.04-0.43
0.52-0.04740.05100.09-0.04-0.48
0.47-0.04750.05080.09-0.04-0.53
0.43-0.04760.04980.09-0.04-0.58
0.38-0.04770.04810.09-0.04-0.63
0.34-0.04780.04590.09-0.04-0.68
0.29-0.04790.04320.08-0.04-0.72
0.26-0.04800.04010.07-0.04-0.76
0.22-0.03810.03690.07-0.03-0.79

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55969799011072K0
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

spot0.541698299128268K268K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3.1M call contracts, 2.5M 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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