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

RGTI max pain

Spot (delayed)$18.8
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$17-9.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.97±21.1% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.361K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$24largest call OI
Put wall$14largest put OI
IV3077.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$59Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $11.5

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$17-9.6%5d
Fri, Aug 28$17-9.6%12d
Fri, Sep 4$17-9.6%19d
Fri, Sep 11$15.5-17.6%26d
Fri, Sep 18$17-9.6%33d
Fri, Sep 25$17-9.6%40d
Fri, Oct 2$16-14.9%47d
Fri, Oct 16$17-9.6%61d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1751015202530$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 — 17 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot17512.515.518.521.5302K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RGTI open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 25.

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 25

spot17512.515.518.521.530164164
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot101418222630153%55%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 77.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 11.591315.51820.524+$41K$41K
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 25

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.0215.50.05410.02-0.02-0.19
0.78-0.02160.05980.02-0.02-0.22
0.74-0.0216.50.06490.02-0.02-0.26
0.70-0.02170.06940.02-0.02-0.30
0.67-0.0217.50.07290.02-0.02-0.34
0.63-0.02180.07550.02-0.02-0.38
0.59-0.0218.50.07720.03-0.02-0.42
0.55-0.02190.07810.03-0.02-0.46
0.51-0.0219.50.07810.03-0.02-0.49
0.47-0.02200.07740.03-0.03-0.53
0.44-0.0220.50.07610.03-0.02-0.56
0.41-0.02210.07430.03-0.02-0.60
0.38-0.0221.50.07210.02-0.02-0.63
0.35-0.02220.06960.02-0.02-0.66
0.30-0.02230.06400.02-0.02-0.71

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 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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