Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 29, 2:52 AM ET

ACHR max pain

Spot (delayed)$4.33
Max pain · Fri, Oct 30$4-7.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.25±5.7% by Fri, Oct 30
Put/Call OI0.205K puts / 24K calls
Call wall$6largest call OI
Put wall$3.5largest put OI
IV3075.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$123Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $2.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$4-7.6%1d
Fri, Nov 6$4.5+3.9%8d
Fri, Nov 13$4.5+3.9%15d
Fri, Nov 20$5+15.5%22d
Fri, Nov 27$4-7.6%29d
Fri, Dec 4$4.5+3.9%36d
Fri, Dec 18$4-7.6%50d
Fri, Jan 15$5+15.5%78d
Fri, Apr 16$5+15.5%169d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot41357911$14M$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 — 4 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot413579118K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ACHR open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.

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, Oct 30

spot413579111K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot345567287%69%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 78.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spotflip 2.512.545.579+$80K−$80K
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, Oct 30

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.000.0010.0016—-0.00-0.00
1.000.001.50.0033—-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.0020.0069—-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.002.50.0152—-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0030.03830.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.003.50.12250.00-0.01-0.03
0.89-0.0140.63510.00-0.01-0.11
0.26-0.024.51.37100.00-0.02-0.74
0.06-0.0150.30100.00-0.01-0.95
0.02-0.005.50.10420.00-0.00-0.98
0.01-0.0060.04650.00-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.006.50.0241—-0.00-1.00
0.00-0.0070.0137—-0.00-1.00
0.000.007.50.0084—-0.00-1.00
0.000.0080.0054—-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot135791111K0
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

spot0.535.5810.51795K95K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 596K call contracts, 108K 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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