Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 11:45 PM ET

ATEX max pain

Spot (delayed)$79.64
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$65-18.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14±17.6% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.29233 puts / 802 calls
Call wall$65largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3077.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$42Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

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, Nov 20$65-18.4%24d
Fri, Dec 18$60-24.7%52d
Fri, Jan 15$50-37.2%80d
Fri, Feb 19$115+44.4%115d
Fri, May 21$85+6.7%206d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot65204978107136165$6M$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 — 65 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot65205075100125160152152
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ATEX 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

spot652050751001251607676
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot204978107136165223%77%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 84.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 50205075100125160+$13K−$13K
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
0.97-0.03400.00180.01-0.03-0.02
0.95-0.04500.00410.02-0.05-0.05
0.93-0.06550.00620.03-0.06-0.07
0.89-0.07600.00910.04-0.07-0.11
0.84-0.09650.01320.05-0.09-0.16
0.76-0.11700.01800.07-0.11-0.24
0.65-0.12750.02220.08-0.12-0.35
0.53-0.13800.02410.08-0.13-0.47
0.42-0.13850.02330.08-0.13-0.58
0.33-0.12900.02080.07-0.12-0.68
0.25-0.11950.01780.07-0.11-0.75
0.20-0.101000.01490.06-0.10-0.81
0.16-0.091050.01230.05-0.09-0.85
0.12-0.081100.01020.04-0.08-0.88
0.10-0.071150.00850.04-0.07-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot17.540701001301605910
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

spot17.540701001301601K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 4K call contracts, 572 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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