Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 5:20 AM ET

RGNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$10.86
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$10-7.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.98±18.2% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.391K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$10largest call OI
Put wall$9largest put OI
IV3097.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$50Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$10-7.9%7d
Fri, Sep 18$10-7.9%35d
Fri, Oct 16$10-7.9%63d
Fri, Jan 15$6-44.8%154d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot101611152025$4M$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 — 10 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot101691215202K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RGNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.

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 21

spot10169121520230230
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot5913172125588%59%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 198.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 5169121520+$39K$39K
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 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.0020.0003-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.0050.00300.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0060.00630.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0070.01450.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.0180.03600.00-0.01-0.03
0.92-0.0190.09360.00-0.01-0.08
0.77-0.02100.20930.01-0.03-0.23
0.51-0.03110.26910.01-0.03-0.49
0.29-0.03120.21120.01-0.03-0.71
0.17-0.03130.13990.00-0.03-0.84
0.10-0.02140.09000.00-0.02-0.91
0.06-0.01150.05850.00-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.01160.03880.00-0.01-0.97
0.03-0.01170.02630.00-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.00200.00920.00-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot161014182K0
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

spot1591317212K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 6K call contracts, 3K 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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