Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:45 AM ET

NVDA max pain

Spot (delayed)$218.26
Max pain · Wed, Sep 16$220+0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.83±2.7% by Wed, Sep 16
Put/Call OI0.5121K puts / 41K calls
Call wall$235largest call OI
Put wall$215largest put OI
IV3031.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $235

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Mon, Sep 14$220+0.8%2d
Wed, Sep 16$220+0.8%4d
Fri, Sep 18$202.5-7.2%6d
Mon, Sep 21$217.5-0.3%9d
Wed, Sep 23$225+3.1%11d
Fri, Sep 25$220+0.8%13d
Fri, Oct 2$220+0.8%20d
Fri, Oct 9$225+3.1%27d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot220120155190225260295$243M$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 — 220 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Wed, Sep 16

spot22012017020522524527014K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NVDA open contracts per strike for Wed, Sep 16.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot120170202.5220237.5255+3K3K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 195 +3K · 202.5 +2K · 220 +2K · 225 +1K

Volume by strike · Wed, Sep 16

spot22012017020522524527015K15K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Sep 16

spot150179208237266295109%27%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 28.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Sep 16

spotflip 235130175207.5227.5247.5275+$6.7M$6.7M
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 · Wed, Sep 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.082000.00750.02-0.08-0.04
0.95-0.09202.50.01000.03-0.09-0.05
0.93-0.112050.01400.03-0.11-0.07
0.90-0.14207.50.01980.04-0.14-0.10
0.85-0.182100.02810.06-0.18-0.15
0.78-0.23212.50.03800.08-0.23-0.22
0.68-0.282150.04780.09-0.28-0.32
0.55-0.30217.50.05420.10-0.30-0.45
0.41-0.292200.05450.10-0.29-0.59
0.28-0.24222.50.04790.09-0.25-0.72
0.18-0.182250.03710.07-0.19-0.82
0.11-0.13227.50.02590.05-0.13-0.90
0.07-0.092300.01700.03-0.09-0.94
0.04-0.06232.50.01100.02-0.06-0.96
0.03-0.042350.00730.02-0.04-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot35130190225255340113K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-08230.01189.69
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot0.580145205265360567K567K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7.9M call contracts, 7.0M 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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