Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 12:04 AM ET

XENE max pain

Spot (delayed)$65
Max pain · Fri, Aug 21$67.5+3.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.15±6.4% by Fri, Aug 21
Put/Call OI0.525K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$57.5largest put OI
IV3048.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$62Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Aug 21$67.5+3.8%4d
Fri, Sep 18$55-15.4%32d
Fri, Oct 16$50-23.1%60d
Fri, Dec 18$50-23.1%123d
Fri, Jan 15$52.5-19.2%151d
Fri, Jan 21$55-15.4%522d
Fri, Dec 15$55-15.4%851d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot67.53549637791105$17M$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 — 67.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot67.535506070854K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)XENE 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

spot67.535506070857171
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spot354657687990177%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 21

spotflip 503550607085+$497K$497K
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
0.94-0.0947.50.00840.01-0.09-0.06
0.93-0.10500.01090.01-0.10-0.07
0.91-0.1052.50.01450.02-0.10-0.09
0.88-0.11550.01960.02-0.11-0.12
0.85-0.1157.50.02740.02-0.11-0.15
0.79-0.12600.03940.03-0.12-0.21
0.69-0.1262.50.05710.04-0.12-0.31
0.54-0.12650.07360.04-0.12-0.46
0.36-0.1267.50.06800.04-0.12-0.64
0.24-0.11700.05070.03-0.11-0.75
0.14-0.09750.02780.02-0.09-0.86
0.11-0.0977.50.02160.02-0.08-0.89
0.09-0.08800.01720.02-0.08-0.91
0.06-0.07850.01160.01-0.07-0.94
0.05-0.06900.00840.01-0.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot355062.5759010K0
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

spot2032.54557.5708510K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 20K call contracts, 6K 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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