Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 15, 11:42 PM ET

TSAT max pain

Spot (delayed)$50.64
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$50-1.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.25±24.2% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI1.121K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$65largest call OI
Put wall$40largest put OI
IV3076.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$13Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $17.5

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$45-11.1%5d
Fri, Sep 18$45-11.1%33d
Fri, Oct 16$50-1.3%61d
Fri, Jan 15$45-11.1%152d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot50152943577185$4M$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 — 50 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot501522.535506580614614
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSAT 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

spot501522.535506580135135
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot152943577185146%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 72.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 17.51522.535506580+$23K$23K
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
0.98-0.01200.00210.01-0.01-0.03
0.98-0.0122.50.00270.01-0.01-0.03
0.97-0.01250.00350.02-0.01-0.04
0.95-0.02300.00590.03-0.02-0.06
0.91-0.02350.00990.04-0.02-0.10
0.84-0.03400.01580.05-0.03-0.17
0.73-0.04450.02170.07-0.04-0.28
0.61-0.05500.02470.08-0.05-0.41
0.49-0.05550.02460.09-0.05-0.53
0.40-0.05600.02270.08-0.05-0.63
0.32-0.05650.02020.08-0.05-0.70
0.26-0.05700.01770.07-0.05-0.77
0.21-0.04750.01530.06-0.05-0.82
0.17-0.04800.01320.05-0.04-0.86
0.14-0.04850.01130.05-0.04-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 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

spot17.5355065804640
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

spot1522.535506580750750
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3K 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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