Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 17, 4:31 PM ET

RIO max pain

Spot (delayed)$96.78
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$95-1.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$22.5±23.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.71713 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV3028.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$34Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Aug 21$100+3.3%4d
Fri, Sep 18$97.5+0.7%32d
Fri, Oct 16$97.5+0.7%60d
Fri, Dec 18$92.5-4.4%123d
Fri, Jan 15$85-12.2%151d
Fri, Mar 19$92.5-4.4%214d
Thu, Jun 17$95-1.8%304d
Fri, Jan 21$82.5-14.8%522d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot95456687108129150$6M$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 — 95 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot95456585105130528528
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RIO open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot954565851051307575
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot45668710812915054%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 60456585105130+$15K$15K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.00600.00330.10-0.01-0.08
0.92-0.00650.00450.13-0.01-0.10
0.90-0.01700.00600.16-0.01-0.13
0.86-0.01750.00780.20-0.01-0.17
0.81-0.01800.00960.24-0.01-0.22
0.75-0.01850.01150.27-0.02-0.28
0.69-0.01900.01310.30-0.02-0.34
0.62-0.02950.01430.33-0.02-0.41
0.54-0.021000.01500.34-0.02-0.49
0.47-0.021050.01500.34-0.02-0.56
0.41-0.021100.01460.33-0.01-0.62
0.34-0.021150.01380.32-0.01-0.68
0.29-0.011200.01280.30-0.01-0.74
0.21-0.011300.01050.25-0.01-0.82
0.17-0.011350.00930.22-0.01-0.86

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5075901051301557K0
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

spot3047.56582.510013511K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 70K call contracts, 66K 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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