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

CRWD max pain

Spot (delayed)$259.86
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$245-5.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$39.33±15.1% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.47573 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$320largest call OI
Put wall$215largest put OI
IV3051.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$262Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $170
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

spot245150194238282326370$10M$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 — 245 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot245150210245280315360388388
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRWD open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot2451502102452803153606565
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot15019423828232637087%48%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 53.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 170150210245280315360+$136K−$136K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.82-0.142250.00530.24-0.15-0.18
0.79-0.152300.00580.27-0.16-0.22
0.75-0.172350.00640.29-0.17-0.25
0.72-0.182400.00680.31-0.19-0.28
0.68-0.192450.00730.33-0.20-0.32
0.64-0.202500.00760.34-0.20-0.36
0.60-0.212550.00790.35-0.21-0.40
0.56-0.212600.00810.36-0.21-0.44
0.52-0.212650.00820.36-0.21-0.48
0.48-0.212700.00820.36-0.21-0.53
0.44-0.212750.00810.36-0.21-0.57
0.40-0.212800.00800.35-0.21-0.60
0.37-0.202850.00780.34-0.20-0.64
0.33-0.192900.00750.33-0.19-0.68
0.30-0.182950.00720.32-0.18-0.71

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 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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