Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 16, 6:02 AM ET

TNGX max pain

Spot (delayed)$25.6
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$25-2.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.07±12.0% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.563K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$33largest call OI
Put wall$23largest put OI
IV3083.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$77Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $19

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$25-2.3%4d
Fri, Sep 18$27+5.5%32d
Fri, Oct 16$22-14.1%60d
Fri, Nov 20$25-2.3%95d
Fri, Dec 18$20-21.9%123d
Fri, Jan 15$22-14.1%151d
Fri, Feb 19$40+56.2%186d
Fri, Mar 19$18-29.7%214d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot2511019273645$7M$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 — 25 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot2519172533421K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TNGX 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

spot2519172533425050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot142026333945423%56%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 107.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 19172227323743+$77K$77K
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
1.00-0.00190.00260.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.00200.00800.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.01210.02180.00-0.01-0.02
0.93-0.02220.04870.01-0.02-0.07
0.85-0.04230.08440.01-0.04-0.15
0.73-0.07240.11530.01-0.07-0.27
0.60-0.08250.13070.01-0.08-0.40
0.47-0.09260.12940.01-0.09-0.53
0.36-0.09270.11670.01-0.09-0.65
0.26-0.08280.09880.01-0.08-0.74
0.19-0.07290.07990.01-0.07-0.81
0.14-0.05300.06270.01-0.05-0.86
0.10-0.04310.04810.01-0.04-0.90
0.07-0.03320.03640.01-0.03-0.93
0.05-0.03330.02720.00-0.03-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 44 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot111192633401K0
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

spot19172533411K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 4K 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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