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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 2:16 AM ET

PLTR max pain

Spot (delayed)$124.16
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$129+3.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14.83±11.9% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI0.6334K puts / 55K calls
Call wall$150largest call OI
Put wall$110largest put OI
IV3067.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $150
Earnings · expectedMon, Aug 3usually after the close

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Jul 31$125+0.7%2d
Fri, Aug 7$129+3.9%9d← 1st expiry after earnings (Mon, Aug 3)
Fri, Aug 14$130+4.7%16d
Fri, Aug 21$130+4.7%23d
Fri, Aug 28$129+3.9%30d
Fri, Sep 4$122-1.7%37d
Fri, Sep 18$135+8.7%51d
Fri, Oct 16$135+8.7%79d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1296592119146173200$279M$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 — 129 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot129651051171281381558K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PLTR 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

spot129651051171281381557K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot6592119146173200143%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 15065105117128138155+$1.3M$1.3M
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
0.69-0.331160.01870.07-0.34-0.31
0.67-0.341170.01930.07-0.34-0.33
0.65-0.351180.01980.08-0.35-0.35
0.63-0.361190.02020.08-0.36-0.37
0.61-0.361200.02060.08-0.36-0.39
0.57-0.371220.02120.08-0.37-0.43
0.55-0.371230.02140.08-0.38-0.46
0.52-0.381240.02150.08-0.38-0.48
0.50-0.371250.02160.08-0.38-0.50
0.48-0.371260.02160.08-0.37-0.52
0.46-0.371270.02160.08-0.37-0.54
0.44-0.371280.02140.08-0.37-0.56
0.42-0.361290.02130.08-0.36-0.58
0.40-0.361300.02110.08-0.36-0.60
0.38-0.351310.02080.08-0.35-0.62

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

spot5510411712914116534K0
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

History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot1365105131165250125K125K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.8M call contracts, 1.6M 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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