Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 4:13 PM ET

AXTI max pain

Spot (delayed)$56.65
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$63+11.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.4±21.9% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.781K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$65largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV30112.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$16Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $40

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, Oct 30$60+5.9%3d
Fri, Nov 6$65+14.7%10d
Fri, Nov 13$63+11.2%17d
Fri, Nov 20$60+5.9%24d
Fri, Nov 27$70+23.6%31d
Fri, Dec 4$54-4.7%38d
Fri, Dec 18$60+5.9%52d
Fri, Jan 15$70+23.6%80d
Fri, Feb 19$45-20.6%115d
Fri, Mar 19$65+14.7%143d
Fri, Apr 16$55-2.9%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot633551678399115$8M$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 — 63 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AXTI 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot3551678399115183%96%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 126.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 40355262718089+$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
0.73-0.15500.02150.04-0.15-0.27
0.70-0.16510.02250.04-0.16-0.30
0.68-0.16520.02330.04-0.16-0.32
0.65-0.17530.02400.05-0.17-0.35
0.63-0.17540.02470.05-0.17-0.38
0.60-0.17550.02520.05-0.17-0.40
0.57-0.18560.02560.05-0.18-0.43
0.55-0.18570.02580.05-0.18-0.45
0.52-0.18580.02590.05-0.18-0.48
0.50-0.18590.02600.05-0.18-0.50
0.47-0.18600.02590.05-0.18-0.53
0.45-0.18610.02570.05-0.18-0.55
0.43-0.18620.02540.05-0.18-0.57
0.40-0.17630.02500.05-0.17-0.60
0.38-0.17640.02460.05-0.17-0.62

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 55 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3051617181914K0
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

spot2054647812016519K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 152K call contracts, 99K 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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