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

ACHR max pain

Spot (delayed)$4.33
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$5+15.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.74±17.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.258K puts / 34K calls
Call wall$6largest call OI
Put wall$5largest put OI
IV3075.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$88Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $3

Event risk before this expiration: 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 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

spot51356810$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 — 5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot512.545.578.518K18K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ACHR 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

spot512.545.578.5261261
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1356810326%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 82.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 312.545.578.5+$62K−$62K
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
1.000.0010.00330.000.00-0.00
1.000.001.50.00800.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0020.01840.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.002.50.04250.00-0.00-0.02
0.95-0.0030.09910.00-0.00-0.05
0.88-0.003.50.22310.00-0.00-0.13
0.71-0.0140.40510.00-0.01-0.29
0.48-0.014.50.46890.00-0.01-0.52
0.30-0.0150.38090.00-0.01-0.71
0.19-0.015.50.27170.00-0.01-0.83
0.12-0.0060.18900.00-0.00-0.89
0.08-0.006.50.13270.00-0.00-0.93
0.06-0.0070.09480.00-0.00-0.96
0.04-0.007.50.06910.00-0.00-0.98
0.03-0.0080.05140.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 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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