Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:02 AM ET

AAON max pain

Spot (delayed)$68.85
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$70+1.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.9±20.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.18686 puts / 4K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3084.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$244Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$70+1.7%25d
Fri, Dec 18$80+16.2%53d
Fri, Jan 15$90+30.7%81d
Fri, Mar 19$90+30.7%144d
Fri, Apr 16$75+8.9%172d
Fri, Oct 15$65-5.6%354d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7040587694112130$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot7040557085100115943943
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AAON open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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, Nov 20

spot7040557085100115112112
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot40587694112130158%76%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 7040557085100115+$76K−$76K
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, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.03400.00350.01-0.03-0.03
0.94-0.04450.00580.02-0.04-0.06
0.90-0.06500.00930.03-0.06-0.10
0.83-0.08550.01360.05-0.08-0.17
0.74-0.10600.01830.06-0.10-0.25
0.64-0.11650.02200.07-0.11-0.36
0.52-0.12700.02370.08-0.12-0.48
0.41-0.12750.02310.07-0.12-0.59
0.31-0.11800.02090.07-0.11-0.69
0.23-0.09850.01790.06-0.09-0.76
0.17-0.08900.01480.05-0.08-0.82
0.13-0.07950.01190.04-0.07-0.87
0.10-0.061000.00960.03-0.06-0.90
0.08-0.051050.00760.03-0.05-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot50751001251501751K0
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

spot40701001301601901K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 6K call contracts, 2K 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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