Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 11:42 PM ET

RGTI max pain

Spot (delayed)$18.8
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$15.5-17.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.77±14.7% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.993K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$15largest call OI
Put wall$13largest put OI
IV3077.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$36Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $13

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

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$17-9.6%4d
Fri, Aug 28$17-9.6%11d
Fri, Sep 4$17-9.6%18d
Fri, Sep 11$15.5-17.6%25d
Fri, Sep 18$17-9.6%32d
Fri, Sep 25$17-9.6%39d
Fri, Oct 2$16-14.9%46d
Fri, Oct 16$17-9.6%60d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot15.581217212630$3M$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 — 15.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot15.5812.515.518.522282K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RGTI open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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 11

spot15.5812.515.518.52228104104
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot101418222630175%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 66.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 13812.515.518.52228+$14K$14K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.0215.50.05840.01-0.02-0.15
0.81-0.02160.06750.01-0.02-0.19
0.77-0.0216.50.07610.02-0.02-0.23
0.73-0.02170.08360.02-0.02-0.28
0.68-0.0317.50.08960.02-0.03-0.32
0.63-0.03180.09410.02-0.03-0.37
0.58-0.0318.50.09680.02-0.03-0.42
0.53-0.03190.09780.02-0.03-0.47
0.48-0.0319.50.09720.02-0.03-0.52
0.44-0.03200.09540.02-0.03-0.56
0.40-0.0320.50.09240.02-0.03-0.60
0.36-0.03210.08870.02-0.03-0.64
0.29-0.03220.07970.02-0.03-0.71
0.23-0.02230.06980.02-0.02-0.77
0.19-0.02240.06010.01-0.02-0.82

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

spot1101519.5253418K0
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

spot0.5814.521314733K33K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 377K call contracts, 283K 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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