Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 11:49 PM ET

WPM max pain

Spot (delayed)$134.21
Max pain · Fri, Sep 11$113-15.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.6±10.1% by Fri, Sep 11
Put/Call OI0.4288 puts / 209 calls
Call wall$140largest call OI
Put wall$98largest put OI
IV3043.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$47Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $113

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$115-14.3%5d
Fri, Aug 28$110-18.0%12d
Fri, Sep 4$115-14.3%19d
Fri, Sep 11$113-15.8%26d
Fri, Sep 18$125-6.9%33d
Fri, Sep 25$130-3.1%40d
Fri, Oct 2$135+0.6%47d
Fri, Oct 16$125-6.9%61d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11398111125138152165$1M$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 — 113 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot113981111191251311456565
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WPM open contracts per strike for Fri, Sep 11.

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 11

spot11398111119125131145100100
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spot9811112513815216585%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Sep 11

spotflip 11398111119125131145+$27K$27K
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 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.73-0.101260.02070.12-0.10-0.28
0.70-0.101270.02150.13-0.10-0.30
0.68-0.101280.02230.13-0.10-0.32
0.66-0.101290.02290.14-0.11-0.34
0.64-0.111300.02350.14-0.11-0.37
0.61-0.111310.02400.14-0.11-0.39
0.56-0.111330.02460.15-0.11-0.44
0.54-0.111340.02480.15-0.12-0.47
0.51-0.121350.02480.15-0.12-0.49
0.49-0.121360.02470.15-0.12-0.52
0.40-0.111400.02350.14-0.12-0.61
0.30-0.101450.02050.13-0.11-0.71
0.22-0.091500.01700.11-0.09-0.79
0.16-0.081550.01360.09-0.08-0.85
0.12-0.071600.01070.07-0.07-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot801051141221311401K0
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

spot50801081351651958K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 49K call contracts, 60K 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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