Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 3:01 AM ET

CLF max pain

Spot (delayed)$12.85
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$11-14.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.65±12.8% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI0.259K puts / 35K calls
Call wall$13largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3071.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$755Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $7.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$13+1.2%2d
Fri, Oct 23$11-14.4%9d
Fri, Oct 30$12-6.6%16d
Fri, Nov 6$12-6.6%23d
Fri, Nov 13$12-6.6%30d
Fri, Nov 20$12-6.6%37d
Fri, Nov 27$15+16.7%44d
Fri, Dec 18$12-6.6%65d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot115912161923$32M$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, Oct 23

spot115810.51315.5188K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CLF 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

spot115810.51315.5182K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot6913162023300%77%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 96.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spotflip 7.55810.51315.518+$277K−$277K
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
0.96-0.019.50.03570.00-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.01100.05220.00-0.01-0.06
0.91-0.0110.50.07740.00-0.02-0.09
0.86-0.02110.11010.01-0.02-0.14
0.79-0.0311.50.14560.01-0.03-0.21
0.71-0.03120.17690.01-0.03-0.29
0.61-0.0412.50.19810.01-0.04-0.39
0.51-0.04130.20550.01-0.04-0.50
0.41-0.0413.50.19940.01-0.04-0.59
0.32-0.04140.18280.01-0.04-0.68
0.24-0.0314.50.15950.01-0.03-0.76
0.18-0.03150.13310.01-0.03-0.82
0.13-0.0215.50.10730.01-0.02-0.87
0.10-0.02160.08530.00-0.02-0.91
0.08-0.0116.50.06810.00-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot37.510.513.516.52128K0
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

spot1710.51417.52498K98K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 505K call contracts, 273K 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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