Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 3:48 AM ET

CIFR max pain

Spot (delayed)$7.8
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$11+41.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2±25.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.797K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$11largest call OI
Put wall$8largest put OI
IV30125.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$5Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $6

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 30$9+15.4%3d
Fri, Nov 6$10+28.2%10d
Fri, Nov 13$11+41.0%17d
Fri, Nov 20$11+41.0%24d
Fri, Nov 27$9.5+21.8%31d
Fri, Dec 4$8.5+9.0%38d
Fri, Dec 18$15+92.3%52d
Fri, Jan 15$11+41.0%80d
Fri, Mar 19$12+53.8%143d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot111713182430$15M$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 — 11 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1119131619232K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CIFR 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

spot111913161923456456
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1713182430432%121%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 143.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 651114172025+$12K−$12K
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
1.00—10.0003—0.000.00
1.00—20.00190.00-0.00-0.00
0.92-0.0150.05470.00-0.01-0.08
0.82-0.0260.10350.00-0.02-0.18
0.68-0.0270.14890.01-0.02-0.32
0.52-0.0380.16720.01-0.03-0.49
0.37-0.0390.15670.01-0.03-0.63
0.26-0.02100.13130.01-0.02-0.75
0.18-0.02110.10350.00-0.02-0.83
0.15-0.0211.50.09080.00-0.01-0.86
0.12-0.01120.07920.00-0.01-0.88
0.10-0.0112.50.06890.00-0.01-0.90
0.09-0.01130.05990.00-0.01-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot17.511.515.519.523.512K0
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

spot18.51419.52637161K161K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.5M call contracts, 408K 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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