Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 30, 8:04 PM ET

CRS max pain

Spot (delayed)$281.21
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$310+10.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$89.9±32.0% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.81327 puts / 403 calls
Call wall$360largest call OI
Put wall$290largest put OI
IV3052.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$17Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $360

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Nov 20$340+20.9%21d
Fri, Dec 18$290+3.1%49d
Fri, Jan 15$300+6.7%77d
Fri, Mar 19$350+24.5%140d
Thu, Jun 17$310+10.2%230d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot310150232314396478560$9M$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 — 310 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot310150210270330390490111111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRS open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot3101502102703303904906565
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot15023231439647856058%46%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 360150220280340400500+$32K−$32K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.062100.00210.56-0.07-0.17
0.81-0.072200.00230.61-0.07-0.20
0.79-0.072300.00250.67-0.08-0.23
0.76-0.082400.00270.71-0.08-0.26
0.72-0.082500.00290.76-0.09-0.29
0.69-0.092600.00310.80-0.09-0.33
0.66-0.092700.00320.83-0.10-0.36
0.62-0.092800.00340.86-0.10-0.40
0.59-0.092900.00350.88-0.10-0.43
0.56-0.103000.00350.89-0.10-0.47
0.52-0.103100.00360.90-0.10-0.50
0.49-0.103200.00360.90-0.10-0.54
0.46-0.093300.00360.89-0.10-0.57
0.43-0.093400.00360.88-0.10-0.61
0.40-0.093500.00350.86-0.10-0.64

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1452503504505507206440
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

spot145220350480610760663663
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 3K 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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