Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 5:21 PM ET

WOLF max pain

Spot (delayed)$30.75
Max pain · Fri, Aug 28$30-2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.71±21.8% by Fri, Aug 28
Put/Call OI1.023K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$32largest call OI
Put wall$17largest put OI
IV30110.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$69Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $31

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$27.5-10.6%5d
Fri, Aug 28$30-2.4%12d
Fri, Sep 4$27-12.2%19d
Fri, Sep 11$29-5.7%26d
Fri, Sep 18$35+13.8%33d
Fri, Sep 25$31+0.8%40d
Fri, Oct 2$23-25.2%47d
Fri, Nov 20$32.5+5.7%96d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot30112029374655$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 — 30 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot3011192630.536442K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WOLF open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 28.

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 28

spot3011192630.536444949
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spot112029374655327%130%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 139.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 28

spotflip 31112027313745+$28K$28K
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 28

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.73-0.10270.03810.02-0.10-0.27
0.71-0.1127.50.03960.02-0.11-0.29
0.69-0.11280.04100.02-0.11-0.31
0.67-0.1128.50.04220.02-0.11-0.34
0.64-0.12290.04330.02-0.12-0.36
0.62-0.1229.50.04420.02-0.12-0.38
0.60-0.12300.04490.02-0.12-0.41
0.57-0.1230.50.04550.02-0.12-0.43
0.55-0.12310.04590.02-0.12-0.45
0.53-0.1231.50.04610.02-0.12-0.47
0.51-0.12320.04620.02-0.12-0.50
0.48-0.1232.50.04620.02-0.12-0.52
0.46-0.12330.04600.02-0.12-0.54
0.42-0.12340.04510.02-0.12-0.58
0.38-0.12350.04390.02-0.12-0.62

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1625.530.535.543602K0
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

spot2.5192835468066K66K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 228K call contracts, 218K 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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