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

AMAT max pain

Spot (delayed)$395.03
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$465+17.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$53.1±13.4% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI3.203K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$475largest call OI
Put wall$395largest put OI
IV3057.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2.1Mper 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

spot465290376462548634720$35M$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 — 465 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot4652903554004454905552K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMAT open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot4652903554004454905551313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot29037646254863472087%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 57.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot290355400445490555+$1.4M−$1.4M
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.74-0.353600.00480.38-0.36-0.26
0.71-0.373650.00500.39-0.37-0.29
0.69-0.383700.00530.41-0.39-0.32
0.66-0.403750.00550.42-0.40-0.34
0.63-0.413800.00560.43-0.41-0.37
0.60-0.413850.00580.45-0.42-0.40
0.57-0.423900.00590.45-0.42-0.43
0.54-0.423950.00600.46-0.42-0.46
0.51-0.424000.00600.46-0.42-0.49
0.48-0.424050.00600.46-0.42-0.52
0.45-0.424100.00600.46-0.42-0.55
0.42-0.414150.00600.45-0.41-0.58
0.39-0.404200.00590.44-0.40-0.61
0.37-0.394250.00580.43-0.39-0.64
0.34-0.384300.00560.42-0.38-0.66

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 52 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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