Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 4:40 AM ET

NKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$42.29
Max pain · Fri, Sep 4$45+6.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.69±8.7% by Fri, Sep 4
Put/Call OI2.094K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$46largest call OI
Put wall$36largest put OI
IV3037.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$129Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedTue, Sep 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 — 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%1d
Fri, Aug 14$42-0.7%8d
Fri, Aug 21$45+6.4%15d
Fri, Aug 28$42-0.7%22d
Fri, Sep 4$45+6.4%29d
Fri, Sep 11$42-0.7%36d
Fri, Sep 18$45+6.4%43d
Fri, Oct 16$45+6.4%71d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Sep 29)

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot45303642485460$3M$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 — 45 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot4530364146511K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NKE open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.

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 4

spot453036414651229229
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot30364248546084%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot3036414651+$53K$53K
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 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.01350.02260.01-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.01360.03000.01-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.01370.03980.02-0.01-0.11
0.85-0.02380.05130.03-0.02-0.15
0.79-0.02390.06310.04-0.02-0.21
0.72-0.03400.07360.04-0.03-0.28
0.64-0.03410.08150.04-0.03-0.36
0.55-0.03420.08590.05-0.03-0.45
0.47-0.03430.08660.05-0.03-0.53
0.38-0.03440.08360.05-0.03-0.61
0.30-0.03450.07710.04-0.03-0.69
0.23-0.02460.06800.04-0.02-0.76
0.18-0.02470.05750.03-0.02-0.82
0.14-0.02480.04720.03-0.02-0.86
0.10-0.01490.03820.02-0.01-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 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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