Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 10:04 AM ET

AKAM max pain

Spot (delayed)$99.85
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$95-4.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14.65±14.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.51494 puts / 963 calls
Call wall$115largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3071.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$95Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

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$97-2.9%2d
Fri, Nov 6$100+0.2%9d
Fri, Nov 13$95-4.9%16d
Fri, Nov 20$105+5.2%23d
Fri, Nov 27$93-6.9%30d
Fri, Dec 4$91-8.9%37d
Fri, Dec 18$100+0.2%51d
Fri, Jan 15$100+0.2%79d
Fri, Feb 19$95-4.9%114d
Fri, Mar 19$105+5.2%142d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot957086102118134150$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 — 95 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot95708594103112125357357
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AKAM open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot957085941031121255252
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot7086102118134150115%68%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 85.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 110708594103112125+$61K−$61K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.68-0.20930.01910.08-0.20-0.32
0.66-0.20940.01970.08-0.20-0.34
0.64-0.20950.02010.08-0.20-0.36
0.62-0.21960.02060.08-0.21-0.38
0.60-0.21970.02090.08-0.21-0.40
0.57-0.21980.02120.08-0.21-0.42
0.55-0.21990.02140.09-0.22-0.45
0.53-0.221000.02150.09-0.22-0.47
0.51-0.221010.02160.09-0.22-0.49
0.49-0.221020.02160.09-0.22-0.51
0.47-0.221030.02160.09-0.22-0.53
0.45-0.211040.02140.09-0.21-0.55
0.43-0.211050.02130.08-0.21-0.57
0.41-0.211060.02100.08-0.21-0.59
0.39-0.211070.02080.08-0.21-0.61

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 50 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot7090991081171272K0
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

spot508110012516020021K21K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 185K call contracts, 130K 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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