Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 20, 1:18 AM ET

RIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$15.06
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$15.5+2.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.76±5.0% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.5717K puts / 30K calls
Call wall$18largest call OI
Put wall$15largest put OI
IV3053.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$169Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $11.5
Earnings · expectedTue, Nov 3usually after the close

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Sep 25$15.5+2.9%5d
Fri, Oct 2$15.5+2.9%12d
Fri, Oct 9$15.5+2.9%19d
Fri, Oct 16$16+6.2%26d
Fri, Oct 23$16+6.2%33d
Fri, Oct 30$16+6.2%40d
Fri, Nov 20$14-7.0%61d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Nov 3)
Fri, Dec 18$17.5+16.2%89d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot15.55913172125$23M$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 25

spot15.5511.51416.51921.56K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RIVN 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

spot15.5511.51416.51921.55K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot101315182023171%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 11.591214.51719.522+$304K$304K
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
1.00-0.0011.50.00800.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.00120.01490.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0012.50.02880.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.01130.05760.00-0.01-0.03
0.94-0.0113.50.11700.00-0.01-0.06
0.86-0.01140.22530.01-0.01-0.14
0.71-0.0214.50.35670.01-0.02-0.29
0.51-0.03150.40480.01-0.03-0.49
0.34-0.0315.50.34340.01-0.03-0.67
0.21-0.02160.25160.01-0.02-0.79
0.14-0.0216.50.17490.01-0.02-0.87
0.09-0.01170.12050.00-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.0117.50.08370.00-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.01180.05890.00-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.0118.50.04220.00-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot511.51416.51921.510K0
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

spot1914.519.52636302K302K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 955K call contracts, 955K 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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