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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 14$146+2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.33±3.7% by Fri, Aug 14
Put/Call OI0.542K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$152.5largest call OI
Put wall$142largest put OI
IV3022.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$284Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $115

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 — 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

spot146100114128142156170$8M$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 — 146 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot146100131137143149162.52K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PG open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 14.

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 14

spot146100131137143149162.54040
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot10011412814215617082%19%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spotflip 115100131137143149162.5+$952K$952K
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 14

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.061360.03370.07-0.06-0.15
0.81-0.061370.03900.08-0.07-0.19
0.77-0.071380.04440.09-0.07-0.23
0.73-0.081390.04940.09-0.08-0.28
0.68-0.091400.05380.10-0.09-0.33
0.62-0.091410.05710.11-0.09-0.39
0.56-0.091420.05920.11-0.09-0.45
0.50-0.091430.06000.11-0.10-0.51
0.44-0.091440.05930.11-0.10-0.57
0.38-0.091450.05730.11-0.09-0.62
0.33-0.091460.05420.10-0.09-0.68
0.28-0.081470.05010.10-0.08-0.73
0.24-0.071480.04540.09-0.07-0.78
0.20-0.071490.04050.08-0.07-0.82
0.16-0.061500.03560.07-0.06-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 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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