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

NTNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$65.9
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$57.5-12.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.05±27.4% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.225K puts / 22K calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$57.5largest put OI
IV3061.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $25

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 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — 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

spot57.520406080100120$86M$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 — 57.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot57.520355065801009K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NTNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot57.520355065801003636
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot20406080100120109%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 252035506580100+$652K$652K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-0.0147.50.00890.09-0.02-0.14
0.83-0.02500.01040.10-0.02-0.17
0.80-0.0252.50.01180.12-0.02-0.20
0.76-0.02550.01320.13-0.02-0.24
0.72-0.0257.50.01440.14-0.03-0.28
0.68-0.03600.01540.15-0.03-0.32
0.64-0.0362.50.01620.16-0.03-0.36
0.59-0.03650.01680.16-0.03-0.41
0.55-0.0367.50.01710.17-0.03-0.45
0.51-0.03700.01730.17-0.03-0.49
0.47-0.0372.50.01730.17-0.03-0.53
0.43-0.03750.01700.17-0.03-0.57
0.40-0.0377.50.01670.16-0.03-0.61
0.36-0.03800.01620.16-0.03-0.65
0.33-0.0382.50.01560.15-0.03-0.68

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 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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