Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 12, 10:10 PM ET

AVGO max pain

Spot (delayed)$354.56
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$355+0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$27.2±7.7% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI1.3017K puts / 13K calls
Call wall$355largest call OI
Put wall$240largest put OI
IV3035.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2.2Mper 1% move
Earnings · expectedThu, Dec 10usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Mon, Oct 12$365+2.9%today
Wed, Oct 14$362.5+2.2%2d
Fri, Oct 16$365+2.9%4d
Mon, Oct 19$360+1.5%7d
Wed, Oct 21$365+2.9%9d
Fri, Oct 23$360+1.5%11d
Fri, Oct 30$360+1.5%18d
Fri, Nov 6$355+0.1%25d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot355215276337398459520$183M$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 — 355 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot3552153103453804154502K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AVGO open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot355215310345380415450908908
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot215276337398459520101%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot215310345380415450+$1.8M−$1.8M
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.87-0.143200.00600.20-0.14-0.13
0.84-0.163250.00710.23-0.17-0.16
0.80-0.193300.00830.26-0.19-0.20
0.75-0.213350.00930.29-0.21-0.25
0.70-0.233400.01030.32-0.23-0.30
0.65-0.253450.01110.35-0.25-0.35
0.59-0.263500.01160.36-0.26-0.41
0.53-0.263550.01190.37-0.27-0.47
0.47-0.263600.01190.37-0.27-0.53
0.41-0.263650.01170.36-0.26-0.59
0.36-0.253700.01120.35-0.25-0.65
0.31-0.233750.01050.33-0.24-0.70
0.26-0.223800.00960.30-0.22-0.75
0.22-0.203850.00880.28-0.20-0.79
0.18-0.183900.00780.25-0.18-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot170300337.5370402.545028K0
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

spot85210325375460590106K106K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.2M call contracts, 1.2M 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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