Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 20, 2:36 AM ET

SEDG max pain

Spot (delayed)$32.58
Max pain · Fri, Sep 25$32-1.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.58±20.2% by Fri, Sep 25
Put/Call OI0.79215 puts / 273 calls
Call wall$40largest call OI
Put wall$29largest put OI
IV3077.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $40

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$35+7.4%1d
Fri, Aug 28$35+7.4%8d
Fri, Sep 4$33+1.3%15d
Fri, Sep 11$34+4.4%22d
Fri, Sep 18$40+22.8%29d
Fri, Sep 25$32-1.8%36d
Fri, Oct 2$31-4.8%43d
Fri, Oct 16$42.5+30.5%57d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot32202632384450$1M$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 — 32 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot32202530343844167167
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SEDG 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

spot322025303438446161
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spot20263238445092%78%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 79.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 25

spotflip 40202530343844+$7K$7K
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
0.88-0.02250.02390.02-0.02-0.12
0.81-0.03270.03250.03-0.03-0.19
0.77-0.03280.03670.03-0.03-0.23
0.73-0.04290.04050.04-0.04-0.27
0.68-0.04300.04370.04-0.04-0.32
0.63-0.04310.04620.04-0.04-0.37
0.58-0.04320.04790.04-0.04-0.42
0.54-0.04330.04880.04-0.04-0.47
0.49-0.04340.04880.04-0.04-0.51
0.44-0.04350.04820.04-0.04-0.56
0.40-0.04360.04700.04-0.04-0.60
0.36-0.04370.04520.04-0.04-0.64
0.32-0.04380.04320.04-0.04-0.68
0.29-0.04390.04080.04-0.04-0.71
0.26-0.04400.03840.03-0.04-0.74

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2031.53847.557.5802K0
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

spot2.527.53552.57510519K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 150K call contracts, 93K 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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