Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 3:44 AM ET

RIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$15.56
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$16+2.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.56±3.6% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI0.2825K puts / 91K calls
Call wall$16.5largest call OI
Put wall$15largest put OI
IV3055.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $12

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$16+2.9%1d
Fri, Aug 14$15.5-0.4%8d
Fri, Aug 21$16.5+6.1%15d
Fri, Aug 28$16+2.9%22d
Fri, Sep 4$16+2.9%29d
Fri, Sep 11$15-3.6%36d
Fri, Sep 18$15-3.6%43d
Fri, Oct 16$16+2.9%71d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1651015202530$111M$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 — 16 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot16511.514.517.520.523.531K31K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RIVN open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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, Aug 7

spot16511.514.517.520.523.55K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot121417192124241%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spotflip 12912.515.518.521.530+$1.9M$1.9M
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, Aug 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00-0.00120.00650.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0012.50.01140.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.00130.02110.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0113.50.04120.00-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.01140.08570.00-0.01-0.04
0.92-0.0214.50.18830.00-0.02-0.08
0.80-0.05150.40190.00-0.05-0.20
0.55-0.0715.50.60090.01-0.07-0.46
0.28-0.07160.47000.00-0.07-0.72
0.14-0.0416.50.27040.00-0.04-0.86
0.07-0.03170.15050.00-0.02-0.93
0.04-0.0117.50.08700.00-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.01180.05270.00-0.01-0.98
0.02-0.0118.50.03340.00-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.01190.02200.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5111417202334K0
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

spot1914192433296K296K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.2M call contracts, 1.1M 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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