Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 3:56 AM ET

UBER max pain

Spot (delayed)$78.6
Max pain · Fri, Oct 2$77-2.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.05±9.0% by Fri, Oct 2
Put/Call OI0.301K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$87largest call OI
Put wall$73largest put OI
IV3033.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$549Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $62

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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 28$77-2.0%1d
Fri, Sep 4$75-4.6%8d
Fri, Sep 11$75-4.6%15d
Fri, Sep 18$75-4.6%22d
Fri, Sep 25$76-3.3%29d
Fri, Oct 2$77-2.0%36d
Fri, Oct 16$72.5-7.8%50d
Fri, Nov 20$72.5-7.8%85d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot775060708090100$5M$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 — 77 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spot775067737985952K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UBER open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 2.

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 2

spot77506773798595208208
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spot506070809010073%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 2

spotflip 62506773798595+$436K$436K
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 2

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.03720.03130.07-0.03-0.20
0.77-0.04730.03460.08-0.04-0.23
0.73-0.04740.03770.08-0.04-0.27
0.69-0.04750.04050.09-0.04-0.31
0.65-0.04760.04280.09-0.04-0.35
0.61-0.04770.04460.10-0.04-0.40
0.56-0.05780.04580.10-0.05-0.45
0.52-0.05790.04640.10-0.05-0.49
0.47-0.05800.04630.10-0.05-0.54
0.42-0.04810.04560.10-0.05-0.58
0.38-0.04820.04430.10-0.04-0.63
0.34-0.04830.04250.09-0.04-0.67
0.30-0.04840.04030.09-0.04-0.71
0.27-0.04850.03780.08-0.04-0.75
0.23-0.04860.03520.08-0.04-0.78

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5061687582899K0
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

spot305767778712090K90K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 638K call contracts, 628K 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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