Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 17, 11:33 PM ET

TIGO max pain

Spot (delayed)$94.26
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$75-20.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.65±14.5% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.39779 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$75largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3041.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$113Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$90-4.5%3d
Fri, Sep 18$40-57.6%31d
Fri, Oct 16$75-20.4%59d
Fri, Dec 18$105+11.4%122d
Fri, Jan 15$65-31.0%150d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TIGO open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot406080100120140121%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 44.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 50406585105125+$75K$75K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.01600.00290.03-0.02-0.04
0.95-0.01650.00430.04-0.02-0.05
0.93-0.02700.00640.05-0.03-0.08
0.90-0.03750.00950.07-0.03-0.12
0.84-0.04800.01380.09-0.04-0.17
0.76-0.04850.01890.12-0.04-0.26
0.65-0.05900.02320.14-0.05-0.37
0.53-0.05950.02490.15-0.05-0.49
0.41-0.051000.02390.15-0.05-0.60
0.31-0.051050.02110.13-0.05-0.70
0.24-0.041100.01770.12-0.04-0.77
0.18-0.041150.01450.10-0.04-0.83
0.13-0.031200.01170.08-0.03-0.87
0.10-0.031250.00930.07-0.02-0.90
0.08-0.021300.00740.06-0.02-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot2550751001256K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 16K call contracts, 2K 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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