Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 2:56 AM ET

NKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$42.29
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$42-0.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1±2.4% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI1.0830K puts / 28K calls
Call wall$45largest call OI
Put wall$41largest put OI
IV3037.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$232Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $30
Earnings · expectedTue, Sep 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$42-0.7%2d
Fri, Aug 14$42-0.7%9d
Fri, Aug 21$45+6.4%16d
Fri, Aug 28$42-0.7%23d
Fri, Sep 4$45+6.4%30d
Fri, Sep 11$42-0.7%37d
Fri, Sep 18$45+6.4%44d
Fri, Oct 16$45+6.4%72d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Sep 29)

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot42253341495765$56M$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 — 42 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot4225374144.5485312K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NKE open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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, Aug 7

spot4225374144.548532K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot333742465155146%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 3025374144.54853+$3.3M$3.3M
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, Aug 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.01390.02980.00-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.0239.50.04290.00-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.03400.06510.00-0.03-0.05
0.92-0.0440.50.10220.01-0.04-0.08
0.86-0.07410.15830.01-0.07-0.14
0.78-0.1041.50.22750.01-0.10-0.23
0.65-0.13420.28940.01-0.13-0.35
0.50-0.1442.50.31680.01-0.15-0.51
0.34-0.13430.29400.01-0.13-0.66
0.21-0.0943.50.23140.01-0.09-0.79
0.13-0.06440.15950.01-0.06-0.88
0.07-0.0444.50.10280.00-0.03-0.93
0.04-0.02450.06620.00-0.02-0.96
0.03-0.0245.50.04380.00-0.01-0.98
0.02-0.01460.02990.00-0.01-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot22.5354044485328K0
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

spot22.538445070100216K216K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.1M call contracts, 895K 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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