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

NVDA max pain

Spot (delayed)$218.26
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$220+0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.35±4.7% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.72116K puts / 161K calls
Call wall$270largest call OI
Put wall$210largest put OI
IV3031.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$13.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $240

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

spot22060126192258324390$2.2B$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 · Fri, Sep 25

spot22060140185217.525029020K20K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NVDA open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

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

spot105160195220250285+2K2K
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: 205 +2K · 230 +1K · 215 1K · 120 +1K

Volume by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot22060140185217.52502908K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot115170225280335390119%28%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 240105150195225260300+$13.7M$13.7M
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 · Fri, Sep 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.061900.00500.04-0.06-0.04
0.94-0.071950.00740.05-0.07-0.06
0.90-0.092000.01110.07-0.09-0.10
0.88-0.10202.50.01370.09-0.10-0.12
0.84-0.122050.01670.10-0.12-0.16
0.75-0.152100.02340.14-0.15-0.25
0.62-0.182150.02900.16-0.18-0.38
0.55-0.18217.50.03070.17-0.19-0.46
0.47-0.182200.03110.17-0.19-0.54
0.32-0.162250.02830.15-0.17-0.69
0.20-0.122300.02210.12-0.13-0.81
0.15-0.10232.50.01850.10-0.11-0.86
0.11-0.092350.01510.08-0.09-0.90
0.07-0.062400.00960.06-0.06-0.95
0.04-0.042450.00600.04-0.04-0.97

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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