Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 11:51 PM ET

AUGO max pain

Spot (delayed)$77.13
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$80+3.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.25±14.6% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.33650 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$110largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3067.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$100Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $85

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$80+3.7%25d
Fri, Dec 18$65-15.7%53d
Fri, Feb 19$70-9.2%116d
Fri, May 21$85+10.2%207d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot80305682108134160$12M$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

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AUGO 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot305682108134160256%59%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 70.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 85356085110135160+$66K−$66K
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
1.00-0.02400.00030.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.02450.00080.00-0.00-0.01
1.00-0.02500.00220.01-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.02550.00640.01-0.02-0.03
0.93-0.04600.01150.03-0.04-0.08
0.85-0.07650.01800.05-0.07-0.16
0.73-0.09700.02450.07-0.09-0.27
0.59-0.11750.02860.08-0.11-0.41
0.44-0.11800.02880.08-0.11-0.55
0.32-0.10850.02580.07-0.10-0.68
0.21-0.08900.02090.06-0.08-0.78
0.14-0.06950.01580.04-0.06-0.85
0.09-0.041000.01130.03-0.04-0.90
0.06-0.031050.00780.02-0.03-0.94
0.03-0.021100.00520.01-0.02-0.96

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

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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

spot305580105130155850850
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3K call contracts, 1K 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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