Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:12 AM ET

AMDL max pain

Spot (delayed)$54.95
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$81.5+48.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.05±23.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI3.672K puts / 494 calls
Call wall$84largest call OI
Put wall$72.5largest put OI
IV30116.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$66Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $40

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$60.5+10.1%4d
Fri, Nov 6$78.5+42.9%11d
Fri, Nov 13$81.5+48.3%18d
Fri, Nov 20$65+18.3%25d
Fri, Nov 27$63+14.6%32d
Fri, Dec 4$60+9.2%39d
Fri, Dec 18$54-1.7%53d
Fri, Jan 15$51-7.2%81d
Fri, Mar 19$52-5.4%144d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot81.530486684102120$8M$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 — 81.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot81.5306373788390155155
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMDL 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

spot81.53063737883905050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot35526986103120169%120%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 124.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 40306573.578.583.592.5+$8K−$8K
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
0.96-0.04300.00380.01-0.04-0.03
0.93-0.06350.00720.02-0.06-0.07
0.87-0.09400.01190.03-0.09-0.13
0.78-0.12450.01700.04-0.12-0.22
0.67-0.15500.02110.05-0.15-0.33
0.55-0.16550.02340.05-0.16-0.45
0.50-0.1657.50.02370.05-0.16-0.50
0.44-0.16600.02350.05-0.16-0.56
0.42-0.16610.02330.05-0.16-0.58
0.39-0.1562.50.02290.05-0.15-0.61
0.38-0.15630.02270.05-0.15-0.62
0.34-0.14650.02190.05-0.15-0.66
0.31-0.1466.50.02120.05-0.14-0.69

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 58 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3055637279864340
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

spot828476074857K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 46K call contracts, 35K 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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