Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 11:06 PM ET

SNY max pain

Spot (delayed)$43.78
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$47.5+8.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.85±20.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.815K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3021.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$81Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $37.5

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$45+2.8%6d
Fri, Sep 18$45+2.8%34d
Fri, Dec 18$45+2.8%125d
Fri, Jan 15$45+2.8%153d
Fri, Mar 19$45+2.8%216d
Thu, Jun 17$47.5+8.5%306d
Fri, Dec 17$37.5-14.3%489d
Fri, Jan 21$55+25.6%524d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot47.5233344546575$16M$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 — 47.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot47.522.532.542.552.5654K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SNY 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

spot47.522.532.542.552.5651818
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot23334454657539%24%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 25.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 37.522.532.542.552.565+$153K$153K
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
0.9927.50.00430.02-0.00-0.05
0.97300.00720.03-0.00-0.08
0.94-0.0032.50.01170.05-0.00-0.12
0.91-0.00350.01780.07-0.00-0.18
0.85-0.0037.50.02520.09-0.01-0.25
0.77-0.01400.03290.12-0.01-0.34
0.68-0.0142.50.03960.13-0.01-0.43
0.57-0.01450.04350.15-0.01-0.53
0.47-0.0147.50.04410.15-0.01-0.63
0.37-0.01500.04170.14-0.00-0.71
0.29-0.0152.50.03730.13-0.00-0.78
0.22-0.01550.03200.11-0.00-0.83
0.17-0.0057.50.02680.10-0.00-0.87
0.13-0.00600.02190.08-0.00-0.91
0.08-0.00650.01430.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2532.54047.555659K0
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

spot22.532.542.552.562.57512K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 49K call contracts, 47K 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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