Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 17, 10:23 PM ET

NTNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$65.9
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$50-24.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.45±17.4% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI1.072K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$57.5largest call OI
Put wall$35largest put OI
IV3061.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$105Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $57.5

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$47.5-27.9%4d
Fri, Sep 18$50-24.1%32d
Fri, Oct 16$50-24.1%60d
Fri, Jan 15$57.5-12.7%151d
Fri, Jan 21$40-39.3%522d
Fri, Jun 16$65-1.4%669d
Fri, Dec 15$65-1.4%851d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot50183145587285$4M$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 — 50 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot5017.53042.55567.51K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NTNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot5017.53042.55567.53030
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot183145587285186%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 57.517.53042.55567.5+$37K$37K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.0247.50.00860.04-0.02-0.07
0.90-0.02500.01120.05-0.02-0.10
0.86-0.0352.50.01420.06-0.03-0.14
0.82-0.03550.01760.07-0.03-0.18
0.77-0.0457.50.02080.08-0.04-0.23
0.70-0.04600.02360.09-0.04-0.29
0.64-0.0462.50.02570.10-0.04-0.36
0.57-0.05650.02680.10-0.05-0.43
0.50-0.0567.50.02710.11-0.05-0.50
0.44-0.05700.02660.10-0.05-0.56
0.33-0.04750.02400.10-0.04-0.68
0.24-0.04800.02020.08-0.04-0.77
0.17-0.03850.01630.07-0.03-0.84

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 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

spot27.542.557.572.587.51153K0
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

spot17.532.547.562.577.59514K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 42K call contracts, 24K 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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