Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 3:22 PM ET

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$159.44
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$170+6.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$24±15.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.6948K puts / 69K calls
Call wall$170largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3069.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.4Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $210
Earnings · expectedThu, Oct 29usually after the close

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$170+6.6%3d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Oct 29)
Fri, Nov 6$170+6.6%10d
Fri, Nov 13$175+9.8%17d
Fri, Nov 20$170+6.6%24d
Fri, Nov 27$170+6.6%31d
Fri, Dec 4$180+12.9%38d
Fri, Dec 18$185+16.0%52d
Fri, Jan 15$185+16.0%80d
Fri, Feb 19$180+12.9%115d
Fri, Mar 19$180+12.9%143d
Fri, Apr 16$190+19.2%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1705102199296393490$1.9B$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 20

spot1705115157.5182.525035014K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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

spot80125160182.5230350+828−828
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; 1 strike was in only one day’s snapshot (each keeps its largest strikes) and is left out. Biggest moves: 90 +828 · 170 +230 · 230 +200 · 100 +158

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1705115157.5182.5250350271271
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot25118211304397490234%67%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 73.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 21080120157.5180230310+$3.7M−$3.7M
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.131300.00660.09-0.13-0.13
0.83-0.161350.00800.10-0.16-0.17
0.79-0.181400.00950.12-0.18-0.22
0.73-0.211450.01090.14-0.21-0.27
0.67-0.231500.01200.15-0.23-0.33
0.60-0.241550.01280.16-0.24-0.40
0.57-0.24157.50.01300.16-0.25-0.43
0.54-0.251600.01320.16-0.25-0.46
0.47-0.251650.01320.16-0.25-0.53
0.44-0.24167.50.01310.16-0.25-0.56
0.41-0.241700.01290.16-0.24-0.59
0.38-0.24172.50.01260.16-0.24-0.62
0.35-0.231750.01230.15-0.23-0.65
0.33-0.22177.50.01190.15-0.23-0.68
0.30-0.221800.01150.14-0.22-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 51 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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