Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 7:30 PM ET

TSEM max pain

Spot (delayed)$229.51
Max pain · Fri, Aug 7$230+0.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.95±5.2% by Fri, Aug 7
Put/Call OI1.094K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$260largest call OI
Put wall$200largest put OI
IV3095.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$41Kper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$230+0.2%today
Fri, Aug 14$227.5-0.9%7d
Fri, Aug 21$240+4.6%14d
Fri, Aug 28$225-2.0%21d
Fri, Sep 4$235+2.4%28d
Fri, Sep 11$200-12.9%35d
Fri, Sep 18$240+4.6%42d
Fri, Oct 16$200-12.9%70d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot230130190250310370430$56M$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 — 230 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot230130185212.5237.5262.5302.5476476
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSEM open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 7.

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 7

spot230130185212.5237.5262.5302.5104104
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot150194238282326370473%100%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 121.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 7

spot165195215235255285+$548K$548K
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 7

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.85212.50.01280.02-0.86-0.12
0.85-1.172150.01560.03-1.17-0.15
0.81-1.58217.50.01850.03-1.59-0.19
0.76-2.122200.02140.04-2.12-0.24
0.70-2.79222.50.02410.04-2.79-0.30
0.64-3.522250.02620.05-3.52-0.36
0.57-4.12227.50.02760.05-4.12-0.43
0.50-4.312300.02810.05-4.31-0.50
0.43-4.00232.50.02770.05-4.00-0.57
0.36-3.362350.02640.05-3.36-0.64
0.30-2.67237.50.02450.04-2.67-0.70
0.25-2.072400.02210.04-2.07-0.75
0.20-1.59242.50.01940.04-1.59-0.80
0.16-1.212450.01680.03-1.22-0.84
0.13-0.92247.50.01420.03-0.93-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot85185217.5247.5287.53351K0
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

spot201051602102603408K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 45K call contracts, 35K 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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