Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 11:40 PM ET

AMBA max pain

Spot (delayed)$67.22
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$63-6.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.58±14.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.27141 puts / 532 calls
Call wall$64largest call OI
Put wall$69largest put OI
IV3084.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$60Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $56

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$65-3.3%3d
Fri, Nov 6$64-4.8%10d
Fri, Nov 13$63-6.3%17d
Fri, Nov 20$65-3.3%24d
Fri, Nov 27$56-16.7%31d
Fri, Dec 4$61-9.3%38d
Fri, Dec 18$70+4.1%52d
Fri, Jan 15$55-18.2%80d
Fri, Feb 19$45-33.1%115d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot63455463728190$1M$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 — 63 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMBA 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

spot63455762677381134134
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot455463728190151%70%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 80.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 56455762677381+$49K−$49K
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
0.76-0.10600.02680.05-0.10-0.24
0.73-0.11610.02860.05-0.11-0.27
0.69-0.11620.03020.05-0.11-0.30
0.66-0.12630.03160.05-0.12-0.34
0.63-0.12640.03270.06-0.12-0.37
0.59-0.12650.03350.06-0.12-0.40
0.56-0.13660.03410.06-0.13-0.44
0.53-0.13670.03430.06-0.13-0.47
0.49-0.13680.03420.06-0.13-0.51
0.46-0.13690.03390.06-0.13-0.54
0.43-0.13700.03330.06-0.13-0.57
0.37-0.13720.03150.06-0.12-0.63
0.34-0.12730.03050.06-0.12-0.65
0.32-0.12740.02930.05-0.12-0.68
0.29-0.12750.02800.05-0.12-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5059657177851K0
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

spot204857.5687997.58K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 43K call contracts, 23K 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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