Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 8:34 PM ET

RGNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$10.77
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$10-7.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.1±38.1% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.53336 puts / 633 calls
Call wall$10largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV30100.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $9

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$10-7.1%7d
Fri, Sep 18$10-7.1%35d
Fri, Oct 16$10-7.1%63d
Fri, Jan 15$6-44.3%154d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot10579111315$1M$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, Sep 18

spot10591113320320
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RGNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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, Sep 18

spot105911131616
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot8911121415335%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 154.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 95101215+$3K$3K
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, Sep 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.0150.01630.00-0.01-0.04
0.86-0.0180.06150.01-0.01-0.15
0.78-0.0190.08780.01-0.01-0.23
0.67-0.02100.10930.01-0.02-0.34
0.55-0.02110.11620.01-0.02-0.46
0.45-0.02120.11100.01-0.02-0.56
0.37-0.02130.10060.01-0.02-0.64
0.26-0.02150.07880.01-0.02-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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: 7K 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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