Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 15, 3:51 AM ET

ARM max pain

Spot (delayed)$231.03
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$275+19.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$41.3±17.9% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.642K puts / 997 calls
Call wall$265largest call OI
Put wall$270largest put OI
IV3075.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$295Kper 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 16$265+14.7%1d
Fri, Oct 23$272.5+18.0%8d
Fri, Oct 30$280+21.2%15d
Fri, Nov 6$270+16.9%22d
Fri, Nov 13$275+19.0%29d
Fri, Nov 20$270+16.9%36d
Fri, Nov 27$275+19.0%43d
Fri, Dec 18$195-15.6%64d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot275160216272328384440$14M$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 — 275 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot275160205250295340385240240
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ARM 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

spot275160205250295340385236236
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot160216272328384440122%73%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 76.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot160205250295340385+$78K−$78K
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
0.85-0.191950.00440.16-0.20-0.15
0.82-0.212000.00500.18-0.22-0.18
0.79-0.242050.00550.20-0.24-0.21
0.76-0.262100.00600.21-0.27-0.24
0.73-0.282150.00650.23-0.29-0.28
0.69-0.302200.00690.24-0.30-0.31
0.65-0.312250.00720.25-0.32-0.35
0.61-0.332300.00740.26-0.33-0.39
0.58-0.342350.00760.27-0.34-0.43
0.54-0.342400.00770.27-0.34-0.47
0.50-0.342450.00770.27-0.34-0.50
0.46-0.342500.00760.27-0.34-0.54
0.43-0.342550.00750.27-0.34-0.58
0.39-0.332600.00740.26-0.33-0.61
0.36-0.322650.00720.26-0.33-0.64

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 51 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot85200257.5295332.54007K0
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

spot42.511518527036050034K34K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 419K call contracts, 492K 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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