Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 15, 5:51 AM ET

TRP max pain

Spot (delayed)$64.02
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$62.5-2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.23±3.5% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.462K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$75largest call OI
Put wall$62.5largest put OI
IV3020.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$394Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $47.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$62.5-2.4%6d
Fri, Sep 18$67.5+5.4%34d
Fri, Oct 16$62.5-2.4%62d
Fri, Nov 20$57.5-10.2%97d
Fri, Feb 19$65+1.5%188d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot62.5334252617180$6M$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 — 62.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot62.532.547.55562.57077.52K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TRP 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

spot62.532.547.55562.57077.56060
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot505662687480106%19%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 47.532.55057.56572.580+$559K$559K
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
1.00-0.0047.50.00140.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.01500.00240.00-0.01-0.01
0.99-0.0152.50.00440.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01550.00860.00-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.0257.50.01850.01-0.02-0.03
0.93-0.03600.04660.01-0.03-0.07
0.78-0.0562.50.13690.03-0.05-0.22
0.33-0.05650.19200.03-0.05-0.69
0.10-0.0367.50.06840.01-0.03-0.93
0.04-0.02700.02640.01-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.0172.50.01230.00-0.01-0.99
0.01-0.01750.00650.00-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.0177.50.00380.00-0.00-1.00
0.00-0.00800.00240.00-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.547.557.56572.5802K0
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

spot32.542.552.562.572.5852K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 10K 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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