Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 31, 9:12 AM ET

BSOL max pain

Spot (delayed)$13.05
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$11-15.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.58±12.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.4512K puts / 26K calls
Call wall$20largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3062.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$56Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5

Event risk before this expiration: 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$11-15.7%20d
Fri, Dec 18$14+7.3%48d
Fri, Feb 19$10-23.4%111d
Fri, May 21$12-8.0%202d
Fri, Jan 21$13-0.4%447d
Fri, Jan 19$15+14.9%811d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot114914182328$32M$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 — 11 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot11491419245K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BSOL 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

spot1149141924183183
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot61015192428226%61%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 54812162024+$71K−$71K
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
1.00-0.0060.00280.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0070.00530.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0080.01040.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0090.02160.00-0.00-0.02
0.95-0.01100.04610.00-0.01-0.05
0.88-0.01110.09460.01-0.01-0.12
0.75-0.01120.16170.01-0.01-0.25
0.56-0.02130.20070.01-0.02-0.45
0.37-0.02140.18500.01-0.02-0.64
0.23-0.01150.14260.01-0.02-0.77
0.14-0.01160.10080.01-0.01-0.86
0.09-0.01170.06870.01-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.01180.04620.00-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.01190.03110.00-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.00200.02100.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot28131823288K0
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

spot161116212610K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 58K call contracts, 26K 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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