Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 2:31 AM ET

CCEP max pain

Spot (delayed)$107.08
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$100-6.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.88±10.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.48175 puts / 363 calls
Call wall$115largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV3020.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$93Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · 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, Aug 21$105-1.9%8d
Fri, Sep 18$110+2.7%36d
Fri, Nov 20$100-6.6%99d
Fri, Feb 19$105-1.9%190d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot100507090110130150$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 — 100 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CCEP 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot60789611413215077%22%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 110507085100115130+$51K$51K
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
0.97700.00250.04-0.01-0.04
0.960.00750.00360.05-0.01-0.05
0.94-0.00800.00510.06-0.01-0.07
0.92-0.01850.00740.08-0.02-0.09
0.89-0.01900.01100.10-0.02-0.13
0.84-0.01950.01640.13-0.02-0.19
0.76-0.021000.02410.17-0.02-0.28
0.62-0.021050.03250.21-0.02-0.43
0.45-0.021100.03520.22-0.02-0.59
0.30-0.021150.02970.19-0.02-0.73
0.20-0.021200.02230.16-0.01-0.82
0.14-0.021250.01630.12-0.01-0.87
0.10-0.011300.01200.10-0.01-0.90
0.08-0.011350.00910.08-0.00-0.93
0.04-0.011500.00450.05-0.96

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

spot60851001151303K0
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

spot5070901101301503K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 1K 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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