Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 8:01 PM ET

WIX max pain

Spot (delayed)$80.29
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$55-31.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.3±9.1% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI1.178K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$70largest call OI
Put wall$40largest put OI
IV3070.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$412Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$55-31.5%8d
Fri, Sep 18$60-25.3%36d
Fri, Oct 16$70-12.8%64d
Fri, Dec 18$57.5-28.4%127d
Fri, Jan 15$70-12.8%155d
Fri, Jan 21$50-37.7%526d
Fri, Mar 17$57.5-28.4%582d
Fri, Jun 16$50-37.7%673d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot55233752668195$23M$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 — 55 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot5522.53547.560752K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WIX 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

spot5522.53547.56075654654
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot354759718395267%76%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 76.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 6022.53547.56075+$236K$236K
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
0.98-0.0257.50.00300.01-0.03-0.02
0.98-0.03600.00420.01-0.03-0.02
0.97-0.0462.50.00620.01-0.04-0.03
0.95-0.06650.00930.01-0.06-0.05
0.93-0.0867.50.01390.02-0.09-0.07
0.88-0.12700.02000.02-0.12-0.12
0.74-0.19750.03450.04-0.19-0.26
0.54-0.23800.04340.05-0.23-0.46
0.34-0.21850.03920.04-0.21-0.67
0.19-0.16900.02810.03-0.16-0.81
0.10-0.11950.01780.02-0.10-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 11 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot30456075901106K0
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

spot22.552.582.51251852906K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 32K call contracts, 38K 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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