Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 16, 6:50 AM ET

TGTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$48.5
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$45-7.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.85±5.9% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.538K puts / 15K calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$44largest put OI
IV3046.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$84Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $22

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$45-7.2%5d
Fri, Sep 18$50+3.1%33d
Fri, Nov 20$44-9.3%96d
Fri, Jan 15$30-38.1%152d
Fri, Feb 19$30-38.1%187d
Fri, Jan 21$32-34.0%523d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot45152943577185$44M$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 — 45 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot451526334047703K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TGTX open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 21.

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, Aug 21

spot451526334047706262
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot304152637485196%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 51.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 22152633404770+$184K$184K
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, Aug 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.03410.01730.01-0.03-0.04
0.95-0.03420.02290.01-0.03-0.05
0.93-0.04430.03080.01-0.04-0.07
0.91-0.04440.04190.01-0.04-0.09
0.88-0.05450.05790.01-0.05-0.13
0.82-0.06460.08000.02-0.06-0.18
0.74-0.07470.10750.02-0.07-0.26
0.62-0.08480.13140.03-0.08-0.38
0.49-0.09490.13580.03-0.09-0.52
0.37-0.09500.12030.03-0.09-0.64
0.12-0.06550.04170.01-0.06-0.89
0.05-0.04600.01820.01-0.04-0.95
0.03-0.03650.00980.01-0.03-0.97
0.02-0.03700.00600.00-0.02-0.98
0.01-0.02750.00400.00-0.02-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 39 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1527344148754K0
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

spot1324313845607K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 46K call contracts, 22K 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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