Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 10:01 AM ET

CRDO max pain

Spot (delayed)$170.5
Max pain · Fri, Dec 4$160-6.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$39±22.9% by Fri, Dec 4
Put/Call OI1.02595 puts / 582 calls
Call wall$240largest call OI
Put wall$140largest put OI
IV3081.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$12Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $240

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$170-0.3%2d
Fri, Nov 6$180+5.6%9d
Fri, Nov 13$185+8.5%16d
Fri, Nov 20$177.5+4.1%23d
Fri, Nov 27$175+2.6%30d
Fri, Dec 4$160-6.2%37d
Fri, Dec 18$180+5.6%51d
Fri, Jan 15$150-12.0%79d
Fri, Feb 19$180+5.6%114d
Fri, Mar 19$200+17.3%142d
Fri, Apr 16$185+8.5%170d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot160110139168197226255$3M$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 — 160 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spot160110135160185210235191191
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRDO open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 4.

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, Dec 4

spot160110135160185210235191191
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spot110139168197226255104%85%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spotflip 240110135160185210235+$26K−$26K
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, Dec 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.181350.00540.15-0.18-0.19
0.77-0.191400.00600.16-0.20-0.23
0.74-0.211450.00650.18-0.21-0.26
0.70-0.221500.00700.19-0.23-0.30
0.66-0.231550.00740.20-0.24-0.34
0.62-0.241600.00770.20-0.24-0.38
0.58-0.251650.00790.21-0.25-0.42
0.54-0.251700.00810.21-0.25-0.46
0.50-0.251750.00810.21-0.26-0.50
0.46-0.251800.00810.21-0.25-0.54
0.42-0.251850.00800.21-0.25-0.57
0.39-0.241900.00780.21-0.24-0.61
0.35-0.241950.00760.20-0.23-0.64
0.32-0.232000.00740.19-0.23-0.68
0.29-0.222050.00700.19-0.22-0.71

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot100145162.5187.5212.52503K0
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

spot5010515519026036014K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 157K call contracts, 158K 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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