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

NFLX max pain

Spot (delayed)$73.6
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$80+8.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.93±9.4% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.55227K puts / 409K calls
Call wall$100largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3033.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1.1Mper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — 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

spot80154107160213266$6.6B$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot800.56171819111858K58K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NFLX open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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 18

spot800.5617181911186K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot5093136180223266121%26%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 34.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot50677685100125+$4.2M$4.2M
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 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.82-0.02670.03030.07-0.03-0.18
0.79-0.03680.03380.07-0.03-0.22
0.75-0.03690.03700.08-0.03-0.26
0.71-0.03700.03980.09-0.03-0.30
0.67-0.03710.04220.09-0.04-0.34
0.62-0.04720.04400.10-0.04-0.39
0.57-0.04730.04520.10-0.04-0.43
0.53-0.04740.04580.10-0.04-0.48
0.48-0.04750.04580.10-0.04-0.52
0.44-0.04760.04510.10-0.04-0.57
0.40-0.04770.04400.10-0.04-0.61
0.36-0.04780.04240.10-0.04-0.65
0.32-0.04790.04040.09-0.03-0.69
0.28-0.03800.03820.09-0.03-0.73
0.25-0.03810.03570.08-0.03-0.76

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

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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