Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 9:28 PM ET

SU max pain

Spot (delayed)$65.73
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$60-8.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.65±7.1% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI0.6516K puts / 25K calls
Call wall$70largest call OI
Put wall$55largest put OI
IV3027.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $65

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$60-8.7%6d
Fri, Aug 28$63-4.2%13d
Fri, Sep 4$61-7.2%20d
Fri, Sep 11$60-8.7%27d
Fri, Sep 18$60-8.7%34d
Fri, Sep 25$62-5.7%41d
Fri, Oct 2$68+3.4%48d
Fri, Oct 16$65-1.1%62d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot602036526884100$84M$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot602032424760856K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SU 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

spot60203242476085191191
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot3750627587100101%25%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 28.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 653041465580+$1.2M$1.2M
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
1.00-0.00460.00060.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.00470.00080.00-0.00-0.01
1.00-0.00480.00110.00-0.00-0.01
1.00-0.00490.00140.00-0.00-0.01
1.00-0.00500.00200.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.01550.00940.01-0.01-0.04
0.88-0.02600.03830.04-0.02-0.15
0.58-0.03650.07380.08-0.03-0.44
0.26-0.03700.05560.07-0.03-0.75
0.10-0.01750.02660.04-0.01-0.91
0.04-0.01800.01130.02-0.01-0.97
0.01-0.00850.00470.01-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.00900.00200.00-0.00-1.00
0.00-0.00950.00090.00-0.00-1.00
0.000.001000.00040.000.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4058636873854K0
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

spot20384857667519K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 104K call contracts, 56K 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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