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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 31, 2:22 PM ET

PG max pain

Spot (delayed)$142.63
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$148+3.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.84±2.7% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI0.615K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$155largest call OI
Put wall$139largest put OI
IV3022.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2.7Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $100

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$148+3.8%6d
Fri, Aug 14$146+2.4%13d
Fri, Aug 21$145+1.7%20d
Fri, Aug 28$144+1.0%27d
Fri, Sep 4$147+3.1%34d
Fri, Sep 11$144+1.0%41d
Fri, Sep 18$145+1.7%48d
Fri, Oct 16$145+1.7%76d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot14885110135160185210$50M$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 — 148 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot14885130138145155172.54K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PG 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

spot14885130138145155172.5135135
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot11012313514816017393%21%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 10085130138145155172.5+$1.2M$1.2M
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
0.92-0.051360.03040.03-0.05-0.09
0.88-0.071370.03930.04-0.07-0.12
0.84-0.081380.04940.05-0.08-0.16
0.79-0.101390.05970.06-0.10-0.21
0.72-0.111400.06910.07-0.12-0.28
0.65-0.131410.07650.07-0.13-0.36
0.57-0.141420.08080.08-0.14-0.44
0.49-0.141430.08160.08-0.14-0.52
0.41-0.141440.07910.08-0.14-0.60
0.33-0.131450.07360.07-0.13-0.68
0.27-0.111460.06590.07-0.12-0.74
0.21-0.101470.05700.06-0.10-0.80
0.16-0.081480.04790.05-0.09-0.85
0.12-0.071490.03930.04-0.07-0.89
0.10-0.061500.03180.04-0.06-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot100133141149167.520012K0
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

spot7012013814817022038K38K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 190K call contracts, 134K 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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