Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 11:05 PM ET

CRH max pain

Spot (delayed)$85.77
Max pain · Fri, Oct 30$81-5.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.33±5.0% by Fri, Oct 30
Put/Call OI0.39362 puts / 932 calls
Call wall$89largest call OI
Put wall$77largest put OI
IV3040.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$262Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $68

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$81-5.6%2d
Fri, Nov 6$83-3.2%9d
Fri, Nov 13$85-0.9%16d
Fri, Nov 20$85-0.9%23d
Fri, Nov 27$79-7.9%30d
Fri, Dec 4$80-6.7%37d
Fri, Dec 18$90+4.9%51d
Fri, Jan 15$92.5+7.8%79d
Fri, Mar 19$85-0.9%142d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot816572798794101$1M$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 — 81 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRH open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.

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 30

spot816573798591984141
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot6875818894101198%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 69.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spotflip 68657480869299+$100K−$100K
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 30

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.87-0.23790.03230.02-0.23-0.13
0.83-0.26800.03820.02-0.27-0.17
0.80-0.30810.04470.02-0.30-0.20
0.75-0.34820.05140.03-0.34-0.25
0.70-0.37830.05790.03-0.37-0.30
0.64-0.40840.06350.03-0.40-0.36
0.57-0.41850.06750.03-0.41-0.43
0.51-0.41860.06940.03-0.42-0.50
0.44-0.41870.06900.03-0.41-0.56
0.37-0.38880.06620.03-0.39-0.63
0.31-0.35890.06140.03-0.35-0.69
0.25-0.32900.05550.03-0.32-0.75
0.21-0.28910.04890.02-0.28-0.80
0.17-0.24920.04240.02-0.24-0.83
0.14-0.20930.03620.02-0.20-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot65758187931002490
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

spot42.57282921021554K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 20K call contracts, 14K 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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