Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 5:08 PM ET

AMAT max pain

Spot (delayed)$395.03
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$450+13.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$42.72±10.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.688K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$480largest call OI
Put wall$365largest put OI
IV3057.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$3.0Mper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · 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$400+1.3%3d
Fri, Nov 6$435+10.1%10d
Fri, Nov 13$450+13.9%17d
Fri, Nov 20$450+13.9%24d
Fri, Nov 27$465+17.7%31d
Fri, Dec 4$420+6.3%38d
Fri, Dec 18$420+6.3%52d
Fri, Jan 15$370-6.3%80d
Fri, Feb 19$480+21.5%115d
Fri, Mar 19$490+24.0%143d
Fri, Apr 16$480+21.5%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot450290361432503574645$75M$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 — 450 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot4502903454004505005652K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMAT 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

spot450290345400450500565729729
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot29036143250357464589%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot290345400450500565+$1.8M−$1.8M
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
0.77-0.483600.00540.26-0.49-0.23
0.74-0.523650.00580.28-0.52-0.26
0.71-0.553700.00620.29-0.55-0.29
0.68-0.573750.00650.31-0.58-0.32
0.64-0.593800.00680.32-0.60-0.36
0.61-0.613850.00710.33-0.62-0.39
0.57-0.623900.00720.34-0.63-0.43
0.53-0.633950.00730.34-0.64-0.47
0.50-0.634000.00740.34-0.64-0.50
0.46-0.634050.00740.34-0.63-0.54
0.43-0.624100.00730.34-0.62-0.58
0.39-0.614150.00710.33-0.61-0.61
0.36-0.594200.00690.32-0.59-0.64
0.33-0.574250.00670.31-0.57-0.68
0.30-0.544300.00640.30-0.54-0.71

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot280365402.54505155904K0
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

spot8017028039552071017K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 225K call contracts, 328K 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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