Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 13, 11:30 PM ET

CRWD max pain

Spot (delayed)$259.86
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$260+0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.65±11.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.492K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$270largest call OI
Put wall$210largest put OI
IV3051.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$183Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $200
Earnings · expectedTue, Dec 1usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 16$225-13.4%3d
Fri, Oct 23$265+2.0%10d
Fri, Oct 30$260+0.1%17d
Fri, Nov 6$255-1.9%24d
Fri, Nov 13$260+0.1%31d
Fri, Nov 20$235-9.6%38d
Fri, Nov 27$245-5.7%45d
Fri, Dec 18$145-44.2%66d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Dec 1)

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot260150194238282326370$13M$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 — 260 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot260150200235270305340266266
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRWD open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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, Nov 13

spot260150200235270305340122122
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot150194238282326370110%46%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 200150200235270305340+$82K−$82K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-0.142250.00560.17-0.15-0.14
0.82-0.162300.00640.20-0.17-0.18
0.79-0.182350.00730.22-0.19-0.21
0.74-0.202400.00810.24-0.21-0.26
0.70-0.222450.00880.27-0.22-0.30
0.65-0.232500.00940.28-0.23-0.35
0.60-0.242550.00980.29-0.24-0.40
0.55-0.252600.01010.30-0.25-0.45
0.50-0.252650.01020.30-0.25-0.50
0.45-0.252700.01020.30-0.25-0.55
0.40-0.242750.01000.29-0.24-0.60
0.36-0.232800.00960.28-0.23-0.65
0.32-0.222850.00910.27-0.22-0.69
0.28-0.212900.00860.26-0.21-0.73
0.24-0.192950.00800.24-0.20-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 39 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot45140190240272.53109K0
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

spot3590125162.521527525K25K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 642K call contracts, 640K 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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