Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 21, 10:59 AM ET

NKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$35.59
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$40+12.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.06±14.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.9255K puts / 60K calls
Call wall$40largest call OI
Put wall$35largest put OI
IV3047.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$919Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedTue, Sep 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 25$36+1.2%4d
Fri, Oct 2$38+6.8%11d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Sep 29)
Fri, Oct 9$37+4.0%18d
Fri, Oct 16$40+12.4%25d
Fri, Oct 23$37+4.0%32d
Fri, Oct 30$36+1.2%39d
Fri, Nov 20$40+12.4%60d
Fri, Dec 18$45+26.5%88d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot40233752668195$288M$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 — 40 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot4022.53547.56072.59512K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NKE open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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, Nov 20

spot4022.53547.56072.5951K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot23375266819581%42%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot22.53547.56072.595+$552K$552K
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, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0022.50.00370.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.00250.00870.01-0.00-0.03
0.93-0.0127.50.01930.02-0.01-0.07
0.85-0.01300.03480.03-0.01-0.15
0.74-0.0232.50.05040.05-0.02-0.27
0.59-0.02350.06070.06-0.02-0.42
0.44-0.0237.50.06170.06-0.02-0.57
0.30-0.02400.05440.05-0.02-0.71
0.20-0.0142.50.04330.04-0.02-0.82
0.14-0.01450.03220.03-0.01-0.89
0.09-0.0147.50.02340.02-0.01-0.94
0.06-0.01500.01710.02-0.01-0.97
0.05-0.0152.50.01270.01-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 26 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot25323640445112K0
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

spot20334047.572.5115134K134K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.1M call contracts, 852K 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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