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

COIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$159.52
Max pain · Fri, Apr 16$190+19.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$56.73±35.6% by Fri, Apr 16
Put/Call OI2.489K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$200largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3070.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$429Kper 1% move
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 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 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+9.7%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

spot190588171254337420$114M$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 — 190 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot1905851351852703702K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COIN open contracts per strike for Fri, Apr 16.

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

spot60115150180220350+74−74
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. Biggest moves: 220 +74 · 140 +14 · 170 +14 · 340 +13

Volume by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot19058513518527037066
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot4011619226834442092%64%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 65.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot4090140190280380+$84K−$84K
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, Apr 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.80-0.051250.00390.31-0.06-0.21
0.77-0.051300.00420.34-0.06-0.24
0.74-0.061350.00450.35-0.07-0.26
0.72-0.061400.00470.37-0.07-0.29
0.69-0.061450.00490.39-0.07-0.32
0.67-0.071500.00510.40-0.07-0.34
0.64-0.071550.00520.41-0.07-0.37
0.61-0.071600.00540.42-0.08-0.40
0.58-0.071650.00550.43-0.08-0.43
0.56-0.081700.00550.43-0.08-0.46
0.53-0.081750.00560.44-0.08-0.48
0.51-0.081800.00560.44-0.08-0.51
0.48-0.081850.00560.44-0.08-0.53
0.46-0.081900.00560.43-0.07-0.56
0.44-0.081950.00550.43-0.07-0.58

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 56 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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