Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 10:02 AM ET

RIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$15.55
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$15-3.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.46±15.8% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.56141K puts / 250K calls
Call wall$20largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3055.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.7Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $4

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · 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 7$15.5-0.3%1d
Fri, Aug 14$15.5-0.3%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$15-3.5%36d
Fri, Sep 18$15-3.5%43d
Fri, Oct 16$16+2.9%71d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot151917243240$479M$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 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot151111825323949K49K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RIVN open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 18.

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 18

spot15111182532392K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot51219263340216%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 55.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 441319253137+$784K$784K
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 18

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.9980.00420.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.00100.01550.00-0.00-0.03
0.95-0.00110.02820.01-0.00-0.05
0.91-0.01120.04820.01-0.01-0.09
0.85-0.01130.07550.01-0.01-0.15
0.75-0.01140.10480.02-0.01-0.25
0.63-0.01150.12620.02-0.01-0.38
0.49-0.01160.13190.02-0.01-0.51
0.38-0.01170.12310.02-0.01-0.63
0.28-0.01180.10630.02-0.01-0.73
0.21-0.01190.08760.02-0.01-0.80
0.15-0.01200.07040.01-0.01-0.86
0.12-0.01210.05600.01-0.01-0.90
0.09-0.01220.04450.01-0.01-0.93
0.07-0.01230.03540.01-0.00-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5111417202335K0
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

spot1914192433301K301K
■ 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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