Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 2:28 PM ET

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$159.52
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$170+6.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.48±11.6% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI2.0119K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$200largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3070.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$585Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedThu, Oct 29usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$170+6.6%3d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Oct 29)
Fri, Nov 6$170+6.6%10d
Fri, Nov 13$175+9.7%17d
Fri, Nov 20$170+6.6%24d
Fri, Nov 27$170+6.6%31d
Fri, Dec 4$180+12.8%38d
Fri, Dec 18$185+16.0%52d
Fri, Jan 15$185+16.0%80d
Fri, Feb 19$180+12.8%115d
Fri, Mar 19$180+12.8%143d
Fri, Apr 16$190+19.1%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1704092144196248300$144M$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 — 170 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot170401101501752002356K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

Open-interest change · 2026-10-23 → 2026-10-26

spot90145170190210240+2K−2K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot: where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Only strikes observed on both days are compared; 10 strikes were in only one day’s snapshot (each keeps its largest strikes) and are left out. Biggest moves: 90 +2K · 260 +143 · 172.5 +124 · 150 +109

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot17040110150175200235266266
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot4092144196248300331%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 86.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot65130157.5182.5207.5255+$225K−$225K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.78-0.341440.01250.08-0.34-0.22
0.77-0.351450.01300.08-0.35-0.23
0.71-0.391490.01460.09-0.40-0.29
0.69-0.401500.01500.09-0.41-0.31
0.65-0.42152.50.01580.10-0.43-0.35
0.61-0.441550.01640.10-0.44-0.39
0.57-0.45157.50.01690.10-0.45-0.43
0.53-0.461600.01710.11-0.46-0.48
0.48-0.46162.50.01720.11-0.46-0.52
0.44-0.451650.01700.11-0.45-0.56
0.40-0.44167.50.01660.10-0.44-0.60
0.36-0.431700.01610.10-0.43-0.64
0.33-0.41172.50.01550.10-0.41-0.68
0.29-0.391750.01470.09-0.39-0.71
0.26-0.37177.50.01390.09-0.37-0.74

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 58 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5513016018521025513K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-1208-2709-1109-2810-13202.60145.00
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot511016521033045034K34K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 515K call contracts, 442K 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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