Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 21, 1:41 AM ET

ABNB max pain

Spot (delayed)$166.22
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$180+8.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$21.08±12.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.013K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$230largest call OI
Put wall$180largest put OI
IV3030.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$370Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110
Earnings · expectedThu, Nov 5usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Sep 25$170+2.3%4d
Fri, Oct 2$162.5-2.2%11d
Fri, Oct 9$170+2.3%18d
Fri, Oct 16$165-0.7%25d
Fri, Oct 23$175+5.3%32d
Fri, Oct 30$167.5+0.8%39d
Fri, Nov 20$180+8.3%60d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Nov 5)
Fri, Dec 18$135-18.8%88d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot18090122154186218250$21M$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 — 180 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot18090120145170195240512512
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABNB 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

spot18090120145170195240334334
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot9012215418621825073%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 11090125150175200250+$158K$158K
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
0.93-0.031300.00440.09-0.03-0.07
0.91-0.041350.00580.12-0.04-0.10
0.87-0.051400.00740.15-0.05-0.13
0.83-0.061450.00920.18-0.06-0.17
0.77-0.071500.01100.21-0.07-0.23
0.71-0.071550.01270.24-0.07-0.29
0.64-0.081600.01400.26-0.08-0.36
0.57-0.081650.01500.27-0.08-0.44
0.49-0.081700.01540.28-0.08-0.52
0.42-0.081750.01520.27-0.08-0.59
0.35-0.071800.01450.26-0.08-0.67
0.28-0.071850.01330.23-0.07-0.73
0.23-0.061900.01190.21-0.07-0.79
0.18-0.051950.01030.18-0.06-0.84
0.14-0.042000.00880.16-0.05-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80125145170192.5217.56000
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

spot55110142157.5185212.511K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 95K call contracts, 103K 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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