Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 11:49 PM ET

UCTT max pain

Spot (delayed)$73.42
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$75+2.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$19±25.9% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.43191 puts / 448 calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3086.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$26Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $80
Earnings · expectedTue, Oct 27usually after the close

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, Sep 18$70-4.7%20d
Fri, Oct 16$75+2.1%48d
Fri, Dec 18$75+2.1%111d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Oct 27)
Fri, Mar 19$45-38.7%202d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7540577491108125$2M$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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot7540557085100120359359
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UCTT 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

spot754055708510012044
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot40577491108125118%82%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 86.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 8040557085100120+$30K$30K
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
0.97-0.00400.00250.02-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.01450.00410.03-0.03-0.05
0.91-0.03500.00620.04-0.04-0.09
0.86-0.04550.00870.06-0.05-0.14
0.80-0.06600.01130.08-0.07-0.20
0.73-0.07650.01360.09-0.08-0.27
0.65-0.08700.01540.10-0.09-0.35
0.57-0.09750.01630.11-0.09-0.43
0.49-0.09800.01650.11-0.09-0.51
0.42-0.09850.01610.11-0.09-0.59
0.35-0.09900.01520.10-0.08-0.66
0.29-0.08950.01400.10-0.07-0.71
0.24-0.081000.01270.09-0.07-0.76
0.20-0.071050.01130.08-0.06-0.80
0.14-0.061150.00880.06-0.04-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot2050851201551904K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 19K 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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