Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 21, 2:51 AM ET

CHTR max pain

Spot (delayed)$110.5
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$120+8.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.45±16.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI8.43700 puts / 83 calls
Call wall$130largest call OI
Put wall$110largest put OI
IV3076.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$98Kper 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$111+0.5%2d
Fri, Oct 30$112+1.4%9d
Fri, Nov 6$111+0.5%16d
Fri, Nov 13$120+8.6%23d
Fri, Nov 20$120+8.6%30d
Fri, Nov 27$110-0.5%37d
Fri, Dec 18$135+22.2%58d
Fri, Jan 15$150+35.7%86d
Fri, Mar 19$120+8.6%149d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1206588111134157180$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 — 120 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1206593102111122155158158
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CHTR 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

spot12065931021111221554949
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot6588111134157180156%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 81.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot6593102111122155+$31K−$31K
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
0.68-0.181020.01480.10-0.18-0.32
0.67-0.181030.01520.10-0.18-0.34
0.65-0.181040.01550.10-0.19-0.35
0.64-0.191050.01580.11-0.19-0.37
0.62-0.191060.01600.11-0.19-0.38
0.58-0.191080.01640.11-0.20-0.42
0.57-0.201090.01660.11-0.20-0.43
0.55-0.201100.01670.11-0.20-0.45
0.54-0.201110.01680.11-0.20-0.47
0.52-0.201120.01680.11-0.20-0.48
0.47-0.201150.01680.11-0.20-0.53
0.44-0.191170.01670.11-0.20-0.57
0.42-0.191180.01660.11-0.19-0.58
0.41-0.191190.01640.11-0.19-0.60
0.39-0.191200.01630.11-0.19-0.61

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 43 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot851061181301462002K0
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

spot5510314019028042022K22K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 150K call contracts, 60K 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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