Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 30, 4:53 PM ET

ADM max pain

Spot (delayed)$76.63
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$80+4.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.68±7.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.134K puts / 28K calls
Call wall$82.5largest call OI
Put wall$77.5largest put OI
IV3034.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$5.7Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

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, Nov 20$80+4.4%21d
Fri, Dec 18$65-15.2%49d
Fri, Jan 15$65-15.2%77d
Fri, Mar 19$75-2.1%140d
Thu, Jun 17$82.5+7.7%230d
Fri, Sep 17$75-2.1%322d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8040587694112130$131M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot80406075859511520K20K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ADM 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

spot8040607585951153232
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot48648197114130121%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 504060758595115+$5.2M−$5.2M
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00-0.00500.00050.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.00550.00140.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01600.00420.01-0.01-0.02
0.95-0.02650.01250.02-0.02-0.06
0.85-0.04700.03290.04-0.04-0.17
0.76-0.0572.50.04720.06-0.05-0.27
0.62-0.06750.05890.07-0.06-0.41
0.47-0.0677.50.06250.07-0.06-0.56
0.32-0.06800.05620.07-0.05-0.70
0.21-0.0582.50.04410.05-0.04-0.81
0.13-0.03850.03140.04-0.03-0.88
0.08-0.0287.50.02100.03-0.02-0.93
0.05-0.02900.01360.02-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.0192.50.00870.01-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.01950.00550.01-0.01-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot22.542.557.572.587.511021K0
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

spot22.54057.57592.512521K21K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 77K call contracts, 31K 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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