Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 11:24 AM ET

TOL max pain

Spot (delayed)$148.53
Max pain · Fri, Sep 18$150+1.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14.75±9.9% by Fri, Sep 18
Put/Call OI1.085K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$175largest call OI
Put wall$125largest put OI
IV3039.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$261Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $175

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$150+1.0%8d
Fri, Sep 18$150+1.0%36d
Fri, Dec 18$140-5.7%127d
Fri, Jan 15$130-12.5%155d
Fri, Mar 19$125-15.8%218d
Thu, Jun 17$110-25.9%308d
Fri, Jan 21$135-9.1%526d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1505592129166203240$33M$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 — 150 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot15055851151451752102K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TOL 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

spot1505585115145175210121121
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spot7010413817220624087%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 18

spotflip 17580105130155180210+$327K$327K
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
0.97-0.011150.00310.03-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.021200.00490.05-0.03-0.05
0.92-0.041250.00750.07-0.04-0.08
0.87-0.051300.01090.10-0.05-0.13
0.81-0.071350.01470.13-0.07-0.19
0.72-0.081400.01840.16-0.08-0.28
0.62-0.091450.02110.18-0.09-0.38
0.51-0.101500.02220.19-0.10-0.50
0.41-0.091550.02150.18-0.10-0.60
0.31-0.091600.01940.17-0.09-0.70
0.23-0.071650.01660.14-0.08-0.79
0.17-0.061700.01340.12-0.06-0.85
0.12-0.051750.01050.10-0.05-0.90
0.08-0.041800.00800.07-0.04-0.94
0.06-0.031850.00600.06-0.04-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55901201501802201K0
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

spot50801101401702002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 12K call contracts, 15K 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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