Expiry context
Reference expiry: 2026-08-14 (28 days). The modeled expiry range is $410 to $450.
Options positioning research
TSM Option Pressure
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing: call and put activity, net pressure, volume and liquidity context for research and AI retrieval.
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TSM option-pressure snapshot
Only verified API values are shown. Pressure describes observed options activity and does not identify whether contracts were opened, closed, bought, sold, or hedged.
- Underlying price
- $409.74
- Max pain
- $430
- Gamma wall
- $430
- Net gamma at wall
- -2,331.82
- Expected high
- $440
- Squeeze price
- $460
- Expiry low
- $410
- Expiry high
- $450
- Weekly expected move
- $31.35
- Average IV
- 0.55%
- Average call IV
- 0.55%
- Average put IV
- 0.55%
- Total open interest
- 10,483
- Total volume
- 2,742
- Contracts sampled
- 60
Max pain
Max pain at $430 is an open-interest-derived reference level. It is not a forecast and does not force the underlying to settle there.
Gamma wall
The gamma wall at $430 identifies a modeled concentration of option gamma. Dealer positioning and hedging assumptions can change intraday.
Contract coverage
The snapshot sampled 30 call and 30 put contracts, with 2,742 total volume and 10,483 total open interest.