Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 11, 1:44 AM ET

CAT max pain

Spot (delayed)$800.98
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$840+4.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$84.85±10.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.38951 puts / 691 calls
Call wall$855largest call OI
Put wall$760largest put OI
IV3043.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$583Kper 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$820+2.4%5d
Fri, Oct 23$820+2.4%12d
Fri, Oct 30$815+1.8%19d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Oct 28)
Fri, Nov 6$810+1.1%26d
Fri, Nov 13$840+4.9%33d
Fri, Nov 20$810+1.1%40d
Fri, Nov 27$805+0.5%47d
Fri, Dec 18$820+2.4%68d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8406207128048969881080$14M$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 — 840 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CAT 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

spot620712804896988108055%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot620710765815865915+$151K−$151K
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
0.66-0.557650.00340.90-0.56-0.34
0.65-0.567700.00350.92-0.57-0.36
0.63-0.577750.00360.94-0.58-0.38
0.61-0.587800.00360.95-0.59-0.39
0.59-0.597850.00370.96-0.59-0.41
0.57-0.597900.00370.97-0.60-0.43
0.55-0.607950.00380.98-0.60-0.45
0.53-0.608000.00380.98-0.61-0.47
0.52-0.608050.00380.99-0.61-0.49
0.50-0.608100.00380.99-0.61-0.51
0.48-0.608150.00380.99-0.61-0.53
0.46-0.608200.00380.98-0.60-0.54
0.44-0.598250.00380.98-0.60-0.56
0.42-0.598300.00370.97-0.59-0.58
0.41-0.588350.00370.96-0.59-0.60

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot23049069083096012007K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 115K call contracts, 120K 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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