Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 3:06 AM ET

ABVX max pain

Spot (delayed)$87
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$75-13.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.2±8.3% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI0.571K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$145largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3062.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$9Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $65

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$88+1.1%2d
Fri, Nov 6$75-13.8%9d
Fri, Nov 13$89+2.3%16d
Fri, Nov 20$85-2.3%23d
Fri, Nov 27$85-2.3%30d
Fri, Dec 4$87+0.0%37d
Fri, Dec 18$100+14.9%51d
Fri, Jan 15$100+14.9%79d
Fri, Feb 19$100+14.9%114d
Fri, Mar 19$100+14.9%142d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot75607794111128145$4M$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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot7560838997105130951951
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABVX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot7560838997105130367367
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot607794111128145137%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 56.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spotflip 6560838997105130+$32K−$32K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.80-0.13800.02940.04-0.13-0.20
0.77-0.14810.03250.04-0.14-0.23
0.74-0.15820.03560.05-0.15-0.26
0.70-0.16830.03860.05-0.16-0.30
0.66-0.16840.04130.05-0.16-0.34
0.62-0.17850.04340.06-0.17-0.38
0.58-0.17860.04500.06-0.17-0.43
0.53-0.17870.04590.06-0.18-0.47
0.48-0.17880.04590.06-0.18-0.52
0.46-0.1788.50.04570.06-0.18-0.54
0.44-0.17890.04530.06-0.17-0.56
0.40-0.17900.04400.06-0.17-0.61
0.36-0.17910.04220.05-0.17-0.65
0.32-0.16920.04000.05-0.16-0.68
0.29-0.15930.03760.05-0.16-0.72

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 39 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot6086941031241502K0
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

spot35759512015018019K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 150K call contracts, 53K 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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