Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 11, 10:31 PM ET

BA max pain

Spot (delayed)$190.58
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$185-2.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$16.58±8.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI5.179K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$255largest call OI
Put wall$165largest put OI
IV3035.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1.8Mper 1% move
Earnings · expectedWed, Oct 28usually before the open

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 16$195+2.3%4d
Fri, Oct 23$192.5+1.0%11d
Fri, Oct 30$190-0.3%18d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Oct 28)
Fri, Nov 6$190-0.3%25d
Fri, Nov 13$185-2.9%32d
Fri, Nov 20$200+4.9%39d
Fri, Nov 27$190-0.3%46d
Fri, Dec 18$200+4.9%67d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot185135160185210235260$26M$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 — 185 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1851351651852052252558K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BA 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

spot185135165185205225255174174
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot13516018521023526075%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot135165185205225255+$2.0M−$2.0M
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
0.97-0.021550.00330.05-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.031600.00500.07-0.03-0.06
0.91-0.051650.00740.10-0.05-0.09
0.86-0.071700.01020.13-0.07-0.14
0.80-0.081750.01310.17-0.09-0.20
0.73-0.101800.01580.20-0.10-0.28
0.64-0.111850.01790.22-0.11-0.36
0.55-0.121900.01900.23-0.12-0.46
0.45-0.121950.01900.23-0.12-0.56
0.36-0.112000.01800.22-0.11-0.65
0.28-0.102050.01620.20-0.10-0.73
0.21-0.092100.01390.17-0.09-0.80
0.16-0.072150.01150.14-0.08-0.86
0.12-0.062200.00910.12-0.06-0.91
0.08-0.042250.00710.09-0.05-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot115162.5187.5212.525030015K0
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

spot65130172.520525031543K43K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 502K call contracts, 411K 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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