Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 5, 11:26 PM ET

ORCL max pain

Spot (delayed)$142.69
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$132-7.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.13±4.3% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI0.5661K puts / 109K calls
Call wall$150largest call OI
Put wall$135largest put OI
IV3062.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$37.5Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $130
Earnings · expectedTue, Sep 8usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$132-7.5%2d
Fri, Aug 14$128-10.3%9d
Fri, Aug 21$140-1.9%16d
Fri, Aug 28$130-8.9%23d
Fri, Sep 4$137-4.0%30d
Fri, Sep 11$140-1.9%37d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Sep 8)
Fri, Sep 18$155+8.6%44d
Fri, Oct 16$155+8.6%72d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot13295120145170195220$804M$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 — 132 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot1329511812813814817013K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ORCL open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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, Aug 7

spot132951181281381481708K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot95120145170195220263%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 70.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 13095118128138148170+$10.1M$10.1M
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, Aug 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.87-0.361360.02670.02-0.36-0.13
0.84-0.431370.03100.03-0.43-0.15
0.81-0.511380.03530.03-0.51-0.19
0.77-0.591390.03960.03-0.59-0.23
0.73-0.671400.04350.04-0.67-0.27
0.69-0.741410.04690.04-0.74-0.32
0.64-0.801420.04960.04-0.80-0.36
0.58-0.841430.05150.04-0.84-0.41
0.53-0.871440.05240.04-0.87-0.47
0.48-0.871450.05230.04-0.88-0.52
0.43-0.861460.05140.04-0.86-0.57
0.38-0.821470.04960.04-0.83-0.62
0.33-0.771480.04710.04-0.78-0.67
0.29-0.711490.04410.04-0.72-0.71
0.25-0.651500.04080.03-0.65-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot7011813314819034048K0
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

spot60110150200300430124K124K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.8M call contracts, 1.4M 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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