Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 11, 10:29 PM ET

APH max pain

Spot (delayed)$87.24
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$80-8.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.35±11.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.8472K puts / 39K calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3041.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $42.5

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 16$80-8.3%4d
Fri, Nov 20$80-8.3%39d
Fri, Dec 18$72.5-16.9%67d
Fri, Jan 15$67.5-22.6%95d
Fri, Mar 19$77.5-11.2%158d
Fri, Apr 16$80-8.3%186d
Thu, Jun 17$80-8.3%248d
Fri, Sep 17$82.5-5.4%340d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8033517088107125$236M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot8032.547.562.577.592.511537K37K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)APH open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

spot8032.547.562.577.592.5115497497
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot38557390108125145%18%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 43.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 42.537.552.567.582.597.5125+$2.4M−$2.4M
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.02700.00970.04-0.02-0.07
0.89-0.0372.50.01300.05-0.03-0.10
0.85-0.04750.01660.07-0.04-0.14
0.80-0.0477.50.02040.08-0.04-0.20
0.74-0.05800.02400.10-0.05-0.25
0.68-0.0682.50.02710.11-0.06-0.32
0.60-0.06850.02930.11-0.06-0.40
0.53-0.0687.50.03040.12-0.06-0.47
0.45-0.06900.03040.12-0.06-0.55
0.38-0.0692.50.02930.11-0.06-0.62
0.32-0.05950.02740.10-0.06-0.69
0.26-0.0597.50.02480.10-0.05-0.75
0.20-0.041000.02180.08-0.04-0.80
0.13-0.031050.01580.06-0.03-0.88
0.07-0.021100.01050.04-0.02-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.547.562.577.592.511519K0
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

spot17.53552.57087.511054K54K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 140K call contracts, 192K 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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