Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 3:10 AM ET

CHKP max pain

Spot (delayed)$159.84
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$70-56.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$42.9±26.8% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.2465 puts / 274 calls
Call wall$70largest call OI
Put wall$120largest put OI
IV3054.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$13Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$140-12.4%23d
Fri, Dec 18$140-12.4%51d
Fri, Jan 15$120-24.9%79d
Fri, Apr 16$140-12.4%170d
Thu, Jun 17$70-56.2%232d
Fri, Jan 21$90-43.7%450d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot706594123152181210$3M$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot7065110130155180200176176
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CHKP open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot706511013015518020022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot659412315218121067%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 7065110130155180200+$5K−$5K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.021200.00400.29-0.03-0.15
0.83-0.021250.00450.32-0.03-0.17
0.80-0.031300.00500.35-0.03-0.20
0.77-0.031350.00540.39-0.04-0.23
0.74-0.031400.00590.41-0.04-0.27
0.67-0.041500.00660.46-0.04-0.34
0.64-0.041550.00690.48-0.04-0.38
0.60-0.041600.00710.49-0.04-0.41
0.53-0.041700.00740.51-0.04-0.49
0.49-0.041750.00740.51-0.04-0.53
0.46-0.041800.00740.51-0.04-0.56
0.43-0.041850.00740.50-0.04-0.60
0.40-0.041900.00720.49-0.04-0.63
0.36-0.041950.00710.48-0.04-0.67
0.34-0.042000.00690.47-0.04-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot6011014017020026012K0
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

spot609513016520027013K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 44K call contracts, 24K 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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