Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 2:54 AM ET

CF max pain

Spot (delayed)$117.25
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$116-1.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.98±5.9% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI1.021K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$120largest call OI
Put wall$111largest put OI
IV3046.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$66Kper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$122+4.1%2d
Fri, Oct 23$116-1.1%9d
Fri, Oct 30$115-1.9%16d
Fri, Nov 6$115-1.9%23d
Fri, Nov 13$115-1.9%30d
Fri, Nov 20$120+2.3%37d
Fri, Nov 27$116-1.1%44d
Fri, Dec 18$115-1.9%65d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11695113131149167185$6M$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 — 116 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot11695108117126137157.5543543
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CF open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

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, Oct 23

spot11695108117126137157.56767
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot95113131149167185150%39%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot95108117126137157.5+$253K−$253K
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, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.121100.03040.05-0.12-0.19
0.78-0.131110.03380.06-0.13-0.22
0.75-0.141120.03720.06-0.14-0.25
0.71-0.151130.04040.07-0.15-0.29
0.67-0.151140.04330.07-0.15-0.33
0.62-0.161150.04560.07-0.16-0.38
0.57-0.161160.04720.08-0.17-0.42
0.53-0.171170.04810.08-0.17-0.47
0.48-0.171180.04810.08-0.17-0.52
0.43-0.171190.04740.08-0.17-0.57
0.39-0.161200.04590.07-0.16-0.61
0.34-0.161210.04390.07-0.16-0.66
0.30-0.151220.04140.07-0.15-0.69
0.27-0.141230.03860.06-0.14-0.73
0.24-0.131240.03570.06-0.13-0.76

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 52 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot100115124133142157.51K0
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

spot508097.51181301659K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 53K call contracts, 38K 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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