Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 10:24 PM ET

ABBV max pain

Spot (delayed)$284
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$250-12.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$19.95±7.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.13232 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$290largest call OI
Put wall$220largest put OI
IV3030.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $250
Earnings · expectedFri, Oct 30usually before the open

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, Oct 16$255-10.2%2d
Fri, Oct 23$260-8.5%9d
Fri, Oct 30$265-6.7%16d← 1st expiry after earnings (Fri, Oct 30)
Fri, Nov 6$250-12.0%23d
Fri, Nov 13$250-12.0%30d
Fri, Nov 20$250-12.0%37d
Fri, Nov 27$270-4.9%44d
Fri, Dec 18$240-15.5%65d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot250210234258282306330$8M$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 — 250 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot250210235255275295315921921
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABBV open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot250210235255275295315155155
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot21023425828230633054%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 250210235255275295315+$1.2M−$1.2M
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.072500.01060.14-0.08-0.10
0.87-0.092550.00780.17-0.09-0.13
0.83-0.112600.00970.21-0.11-0.17
0.77-0.132650.01160.24-0.13-0.23
0.71-0.142700.01340.28-0.15-0.29
0.64-0.162750.01480.30-0.16-0.36
0.56-0.162800.01570.32-0.17-0.44
0.48-0.162850.01600.32-0.17-0.52
0.40-0.162900.01570.31-0.16-0.60
0.33-0.152950.01480.29-0.15-0.68
0.26-0.133000.01330.27-0.13-0.75
0.20-0.113050.01160.23-0.12-0.81
0.15-0.103100.00970.19-0.10-0.86
0.12-0.083150.00790.16-0.08-0.90
0.09-0.063200.00630.13-0.06-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 24 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot130180235262.5282.5302.54K0
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

spot85150215257.529033525K25K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 156K call contracts, 131K 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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