Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 19, 11:35 AM ET

CCJ max pain

Spot (delayed)$82.6
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$92+11.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.85±10.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI35.1513K puts / 378 calls
Call wall$105largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3048.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2.5Mper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: 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 23$86+4.1%4d
Fri, Oct 30$93+12.6%11d
Fri, Nov 6$89+7.7%18d
Fri, Nov 13$92+11.4%25d
Fri, Nov 20$90+9.0%32d
Fri, Nov 27$89+7.7%39d
Fri, Dec 18$95+15.0%60d
Fri, Jan 15$90+9.0%88d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot9265768798109120$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 — 92 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot92657784919811513K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CCJ 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

spot9265778491981152020
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot6576879810912083%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 48.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot6577849198115+$2.4M−$2.4M
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
0.73-0.07760.02950.07-0.07-0.27
0.70-0.07770.03120.08-0.07-0.31
0.66-0.07780.03270.08-0.07-0.34
0.63-0.07790.03400.09-0.08-0.37
0.59-0.08800.03490.09-0.08-0.41
0.56-0.08810.03560.09-0.08-0.45
0.52-0.08820.03600.09-0.08-0.48
0.49-0.08830.03610.09-0.08-0.52
0.45-0.08840.03600.09-0.08-0.55
0.42-0.08850.03550.09-0.08-0.59
0.38-0.07860.03480.09-0.08-0.62
0.35-0.07870.03390.08-0.07-0.66
0.32-0.07880.03270.08-0.07-0.69
0.29-0.07890.03140.08-0.07-0.72
0.26-0.06900.02980.07-0.06-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot7084931021111201K0
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

spot4070859812515585K85K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 159K call contracts, 243K 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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