Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 11:49 PM ET

BIB max pain

Spot (delayed)$110.32
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$90-18.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.9±23.5% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.1228 puts / 231 calls
Call wall$135largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3054.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$25Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$100-9.4%25d
Fri, Dec 18$98-11.2%53d
Fri, Feb 19$90-18.4%116d
Fri, May 21$109-1.2%207d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot90507294116138160$1M$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 — 90 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot905081931051201407474
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BIB open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot9050819310512014011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot50729411613816072%49%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 70508193105120140+$10K−$10K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.87-0.03810.00580.13-0.03-0.12
0.84-0.03850.00680.15-0.03-0.15
0.80-0.04900.00820.17-0.04-0.20
0.77-0.04930.00900.19-0.04-0.23
0.75-0.04950.00940.20-0.04-0.25
0.69-0.051000.01060.22-0.05-0.31
0.63-0.051050.01140.23-0.05-0.37
0.57-0.051100.01200.25-0.05-0.43
0.51-0.051150.01230.25-0.06-0.49
0.46-0.051200.01230.25-0.06-0.55
0.40-0.051250.01200.24-0.05-0.61
0.30-0.051350.01090.22-0.05-0.71
0.26-0.041400.01010.20-0.05-0.75
0.22-0.041450.00930.19-0.04-0.79
0.14-0.031600.00680.14-0.03-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5084931121351120
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

spot40758799111135112112
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 600 call contracts, 154 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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