Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 17, 12:38 AM ET

RGNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.95
Max pain · Fri, Apr 16$7+0.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.25±75.5% by Fri, Apr 16
Put/Call OI0.18191 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$7largest call OI
Put wall$9largest put OI
IV30140.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$7+0.7%35d
Fri, Jan 15$7+0.7%91d
Fri, Apr 16$7+0.7%182d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7369131619$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 — 7 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot737101316913913
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RGNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Apr 16.

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, Apr 16

spot737101316300300
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot369131619230%102%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 138.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot37101316+$2K−$2K
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, Apr 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.94-0.0130.01420.01-0.01-0.09
0.84-0.0150.03360.01-0.01-0.19
0.79-0.0160.04360.02-0.01-0.25
0.73-0.0170.05200.02-0.01-0.31
0.67-0.0180.05790.02-0.01-0.37
0.62-0.0190.06140.02-0.01-0.42
0.57-0.01100.06310.02-0.01-0.47
0.53-0.01110.06350.02-0.01-0.52
0.49-0.01120.06320.02-0.01-0.56
0.46-0.01130.06230.02-0.01-0.59
0.43-0.01140.06110.02-0.01-0.62

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 11 strikes around the money — all 15 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1591317259810
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

spot159131721981981
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 1K 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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