Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 3:17 PM ET

CRWV max pain

Spot (delayed)$57.42
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$68+18.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.9±20.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.0933K puts / 30K calls
Call wall$65largest call OI
Put wall$50largest put OI
IV30107.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$424Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: 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 30$65+13.2%4d
Fri, Nov 6$72+25.4%11d
Fri, Nov 13$68+18.4%18d
Fri, Nov 20$70+21.9%25d
Fri, Nov 27$65+13.2%32d
Fri, Dec 4$65+13.2%39d
Fri, Dec 18$75+30.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$80+39.3%81d
Fri, Feb 19$75+30.6%116d
Fri, Mar 19$80+39.3%144d
Fri, Apr 16$75+30.6%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot6830507090110130$160M$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 — 68 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot683056667686974K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CRWV 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

spot68305666768697927927
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot30507090110130155%115%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 116.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot305666768697+$192K−$192K
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
0.74-0.13500.02090.04-0.14-0.26
0.72-0.14510.02200.04-0.14-0.28
0.70-0.14520.02300.04-0.15-0.30
0.67-0.15530.02380.05-0.15-0.33
0.65-0.15540.02460.05-0.15-0.35
0.62-0.16550.02530.05-0.16-0.38
0.59-0.16560.02580.05-0.16-0.41
0.57-0.16570.02620.05-0.16-0.43
0.54-0.16580.02640.05-0.16-0.46
0.52-0.16590.02660.05-0.16-0.49
0.49-0.16600.02660.05-0.16-0.51
0.46-0.16610.02650.05-0.16-0.54
0.44-0.16620.02630.05-0.16-0.56
0.41-0.16630.02600.05-0.16-0.59
0.39-0.16640.02560.05-0.16-0.61

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot154961.571849725K0
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

spot54562.579110165198K198K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.8M call contracts, 2.0M 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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