Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 11:50 PM ET

ASST max pain

Spot (delayed)$27.23
Max pain · Fri, Oct 30$27-0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.94±7.1% by Fri, Oct 30
Put/Call OI0.9114K puts / 16K calls
Call wall$40largest call OI
Put wall$20largest put OI
IV3090.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$57Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $31

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$27-0.8%2d
Fri, Nov 6$28+2.8%9d
Fri, Nov 13$27.5+1.0%16d
Fri, Nov 20$29+6.5%23d
Fri, Nov 27$30+10.2%30d
Fri, Dec 4$27-0.8%37d
Fri, Dec 18$20-26.6%51d
Fri, Jan 15$20-26.6%79d
Fri, Mar 19$25-8.2%142d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot27152331394755$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 — 27 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot271522.52731.536434K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ASST open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.

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, Oct 30

spot271522.52731.536432K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot172329354147393%98%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 98.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spotflip 31152226303438+$211K−$211K
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, Oct 30

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.0623.50.05070.00-0.06-0.07
0.90-0.07240.06630.00-0.07-0.10
0.86-0.0924.50.08460.01-0.09-0.14
0.82-0.12250.10440.01-0.12-0.19
0.76-0.1425.50.12430.01-0.14-0.24
0.69-0.16260.14200.01-0.16-0.31
0.61-0.1726.50.15510.01-0.17-0.39
0.53-0.18270.16170.01-0.18-0.47
0.45-0.1827.50.16110.01-0.18-0.55
0.38-0.17280.15380.01-0.17-0.62
0.31-0.1528.50.14130.01-0.15-0.69
0.25-0.14290.12560.01-0.13-0.75
0.20-0.1229.50.10850.01-0.12-0.80
0.15-0.10300.09170.01-0.10-0.85
0.12-0.0830.50.07610.01-0.08-0.88

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 53 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1522.527.532.537.5464K0
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

spot1132228344024K24K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 206K call contracts, 103K 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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