Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 6, 2:30 PM ET

WMB max pain

Spot (delayed)$72.27
Max pain · Fri, Sep 4$72-0.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.85±6.7% by Fri, Sep 4
Put/Call OI0.97885 puts / 910 calls
Call wall$75largest call OI
Put wall$63largest put OI
IV3028.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$149Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $63

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Aug 7 · CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 7$71-1.8%1d
Fri, Aug 14$72-0.4%8d
Fri, Aug 21$72-0.4%15d
Fri, Aug 28$75+3.8%22d
Fri, Sep 4$72-0.4%29d
Fri, Sep 11$72-0.4%36d
Fri, Sep 18$70-3.1%43d
Fri, Oct 16$70-3.1%71d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 72 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 4

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WMB open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 4.

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, Sep 4

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spot58636772768159%27%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 4

spotflip 635866707478+$171K$171K
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, Sep 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.02630.02000.03-0.02-0.09
0.89-0.02650.02810.04-0.02-0.11
0.86-0.02660.03360.04-0.02-0.14
0.83-0.02670.04020.05-0.03-0.17
0.74-0.03690.05450.07-0.03-0.26
0.69-0.03700.06060.07-0.04-0.32
0.62-0.04710.06510.08-0.04-0.38
0.55-0.04720.06780.08-0.04-0.45
0.42-0.04740.06690.08-0.04-0.59
0.36-0.04750.06360.08-0.04-0.65
0.30-0.03760.05890.07-0.03-0.71
0.20-0.03780.04720.06-0.03-0.81
0.13-0.02800.03520.04-0.02-0.89
0.11-0.02810.03000.04-0.02-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 15 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

spot2545637281100101K101K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 247K call contracts, 134K 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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