Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:04 AM ET

SPX max pain

Spot (delayed)$7,657
Max pain · Mon, Sep 14$7,675+0.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$39.1±0.5% by Mon, Sep 14
Put/Call OI1.89124K puts / 66K calls
Call wall$7,720largest call OI
Put wall$7,500largest put OI
IV3012.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1061.5Mper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Mon, Sep 14$7,675+0.2%3d
Tue, Sep 15$7,675+0.2%4d
Wed, Sep 16$7,675+0.2%5d
Thu, Sep 17$7,675+0.2%6d
Fri, Sep 18$7,500-2.1%7d
Mon, Sep 21$7,700+0.6%10d
Tue, Sep 22$7,680+0.3%11d
Wed, Sep 23$7,675+0.2%12d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7675540059856570715577408325$20.6B$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 — 7675 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Mon, Sep 14

spot76755400700074007575772078657K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPX open contracts per strike for Mon, Sep 14.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot540070257440758077257865+4K4K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot — where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Biggest moves: 6300 +4K · 6000 +3K · 6200 +3K · 8325 +2K

Volume by strike · Mon, Sep 14

spot767554007000740075757720786527K27K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Mon, Sep 14

spot72007425765078758100832529%6%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 7.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Mon, Sep 14

spot705074007540767077557875+$682.1M$682.1M
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 · Mon, Sep 14

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.94-1.3675400.00160.93-1.36-0.06
0.93-1.4475450.00170.98-1.44-0.07
0.89-2.0575750.00281.40-2.05-0.11
0.88-2.1875800.00301.49-2.18-0.12
0.85-2.4475900.00361.67-2.44-0.15
0.82-2.7276000.00421.87-2.72-0.18
0.72-3.3876250.00602.37-3.38-0.28
0.56-3.6976500.00782.73-3.69-0.44
0.40-3.3776700.00812.68-3.37-0.60
0.36-3.1976750.00792.60-3.19-0.64
0.18-1.9677000.00571.89-1.96-0.82
0.15-1.6877050.00511.71-1.68-0.85
0.08-0.9577200.00341.16-0.95-0.92
0.06-0.7777250.00280.99-0.77-0.94
0.05-0.6177300.00240.85-0.61-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5800742575757685776078758K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-0877997316
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot600520064007200770083001.3M1.3M
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 10.0M call contracts, 13.9M 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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