Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 23, 1:51 PM ET

CVNA max pain

Spot (delayed)$57.04
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$60+5.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.45±18.3% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI3.51808 puts / 230 calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$51largest put OI
IV3076.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$44Kper 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 23$60+5.2%today
Fri, Oct 30$60+5.2%7d
Fri, Nov 6$61+7.0%14d
Fri, Nov 13$63+10.5%21d
Fri, Nov 20$66+15.7%28d
Fri, Nov 27$60+5.2%35d
Fri, Dec 18$62+8.7%56d
Fri, Jan 15$60+5.2%84d
Fri, Feb 19$70+22.7%119d
Fri, Mar 19$66+15.7%147d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot60405060708090$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot60405057636975194194
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CVNA 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

spot6040505763697511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot40506070809080%67%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 74.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot405057636975+$16K−$16K
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
0.78-0.06490.02160.05-0.06-0.22
0.76-0.06500.02310.06-0.06-0.25
0.73-0.06510.02450.06-0.06-0.27
0.67-0.07530.02690.06-0.07-0.33
0.65-0.07540.02800.07-0.07-0.36
0.62-0.07550.02890.07-0.07-0.39
0.59-0.07560.02960.07-0.07-0.42
0.56-0.07570.03020.07-0.07-0.45
0.53-0.07580.03050.07-0.07-0.48
0.50-0.07590.03070.07-0.07-0.51
0.47-0.07600.03080.07-0.07-0.54
0.44-0.07610.03060.07-0.07-0.57
0.41-0.07620.03030.07-0.07-0.60
0.38-0.07630.02980.07-0.07-0.63
0.35-0.07640.02920.07-0.07-0.65

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

spot4051606978874K0
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

spot133352669011854K54K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 459K call contracts, 471K 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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