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

ASST max pain

Spot (delayed)$27.23
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$27.5+1.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.35±16.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.44881 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$30largest call OI
Put wall$25largest put OI
IV3090.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$48Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $16

Event risk before this expiration: 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$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

spot27.5152229364350$4M$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 — 27.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot27.5152327.531.53644536536
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ASST 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

spot27.5152327.531.53644200200
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot162330364350189%79%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 93.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 16152327.531.53644+$26K−$26K
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
0.82-0.04230.04670.02-0.04-0.18
0.76-0.05240.05550.02-0.05-0.24
0.73-0.0524.50.05960.02-0.05-0.27
0.70-0.06250.06320.02-0.06-0.30
0.66-0.0625.50.06620.02-0.06-0.34
0.63-0.06260.06870.02-0.06-0.37
0.59-0.0626.50.07060.02-0.06-0.41
0.55-0.06270.07170.02-0.06-0.45
0.52-0.0727.50.07230.02-0.07-0.48
0.48-0.07280.07220.02-0.07-0.52
0.45-0.0628.50.07150.02-0.06-0.55
0.42-0.06290.07020.02-0.06-0.58
0.38-0.0629.50.06860.02-0.06-0.62
0.35-0.06300.06650.02-0.06-0.65
0.33-0.0630.50.06420.02-0.06-0.67

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 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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