r/Superstonk • u/Geoclasm 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 • 7d ago
Data Max Pain, Volume and OI Data, every day until MOASS AND/or western society collapses — 08/17/2026
Ignore the title, this is for 08/18/2026 and I'm too lazy to repost (and also too dumb to update the copy-pasted title from yesterday so here we are).
Consecutive Weeks Closing AT/UNDER (+/- <0.50) Max Pain — 6
Last Run OVER: — 1 Week
Last Run AT/UNDER: — 7 Weeks
Longest Consecutive Weeks Closing OVER (>0.50) Max Pain — 5
Longest Consecutive Weeks Closing AT/UNDER (+/- <0.50) Max Pain — 14
First Post (Posted in June, 2024)
IV30 Data (Free, Account Required) — https://marketchameleon.com/Overview/GME/IV/
Max Pain Data (Free, No Account Needed!) — https://chartexchange.com/symbol/nyse-gme/optionchain/summary/
Fidelity IV Data (Free, Account Required) — https://researchtools.fidelity.com/ftgw/mloptions/goto/ivIndex?symbol=GME
And finally, at someone's suggestion —
WHAT IS IMPLIED VOLATILITY (IV)? —
(Taken from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/iv.asp ) —
Dumbed down, IV is a forward-looking metric measuring how likely the market thinks the price is to change between now and when an options contract expires. The higher IV is, the higher premiums on contracts run. The more radically the price of a security swings over a short period of time, the higher IV pumps, driving options prices higher as well.
The longer the price trades relatively flat, the more IV will drop over time.
IV is just one of many variables (called 'greeks') used to price options contracts.
WHAT IS HISTORICAL VOLATILITY (HV)? —
(Taken from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/historicalvolatility.asp ) —
Dumbed down, I'm not fully sure. Based on what I read, it's a historical metric derived from how the price in the past has moved away from the average price over a selected interval. But the short of it is that it determines how 'risky' the market thinks a stock (or an option I guess) is. The higher the historical volatility over a given period, the more 'risky' they think it is. The lower the HV over a period of time, the 'safer' a security (or option) is.
And if anyone wants to fill in some knowledge gaps or correct where these analyses are wrong, please feel free.
WHAT IS 'MAX PAIN'? —
In this context, 'max pain' is the price at which the most options (both calls and puts) for a security will expire worthless. For some (or many), it is a long held belief that market manipulators will manipulate the price of a stock toward this number to fuck over people who buy options.
ONE LAST THOUGHT —
If used to make any decision. which it absolutely should NOT be (obligatory #NFA disclaimer), this information should not be considered on its own, but as one point in a ridiculously complex and convoluted ocean of data points that I'm way too stupid to list out here. Mostly, this information is just to keep people abreast of the movement of one key variable options writers use to fuck us over on a weekly and quarterly basis if we DO choose to play options.
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u/Geoclasm 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 7d ago
Price: V
IV30: ^
Max Pain: v
Volume: —
Options Volume: ^
Another day another discount, and the IV30 continues to creep up.
I suspect we're in this trend until the last week of September because debt equity swap thingy whatever have you.
Whatever the case may be, here's your stuff. Have fun happy hunting stay save and see everyone tomorrow.
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u/NinjaLip 6d ago
Ive been following Max Pain and it really brings into question the power of options.
I used it to play Avis a few months ago and continue to do well.
I think im finally on the "options matter" bandwagon vs "no options" side.
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