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

NKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$42.29
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$45+6.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.29±10.1% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.93206K puts / 222K calls
Call wall$45largest call OI
Put wall$40largest put OI
IV3037.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$3.0Mper 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 · 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$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

spot452341607897115$1.3B$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 18

spot4522.537.552.567.582.5105111K111K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NKE 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

spot4522.537.552.567.582.51056K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot2341607897115122%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot22.537.552.567.582.5105+$13.0M$13.0M
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
1.00250.00090.00-0.00-0.01
1.0027.50.00160.00-0.00-0.01
0.99300.00340.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0032.50.00850.01-0.01-0.03
0.94-0.01350.02100.02-0.01-0.08
0.86-0.0137.50.04280.03-0.02-0.17
0.72-0.02400.06670.05-0.02-0.31
0.53-0.0242.50.07900.06-0.02-0.50
0.34-0.02450.07200.05-0.02-0.67
0.20-0.0247.50.05360.04-0.02-0.81
0.11-0.01500.03540.03-0.01-0.89
0.07-0.0152.50.02220.02-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.01550.01420.01-0.00-0.96
0.03-0.0057.50.00950.01-0.00-0.97
0.02-0.00600.00680.010.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 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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