Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET

DJT max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.65
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$7+5.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.01±15.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.46772 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$9largest call OI
Put wall$5largest put OI
IV3066.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$8Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $4.5

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$7+5.2%2d
Fri, Oct 30$7+5.2%9d
Fri, Nov 6$7+5.2%16d
Fri, Nov 13$7+5.2%23d
Fri, Nov 20$9+35.3%30d
Fri, Nov 27$6.5-2.3%37d
Fri, Dec 18$9+35.3%58d
Fri, Jan 15$10+50.3%86d
Fri, Mar 19$9+35.3%149d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot746891113$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 — 7 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot74681012464464
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DJT 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

spot74681012532532
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot56891113286%64%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 75.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 4.54681012+$5K−$5K
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
0.98-0.0040.03060.00-0.00-0.03
0.96-0.004.50.05210.00-0.00-0.04
0.93-0.0050.09430.00-0.00-0.07
0.87-0.015.50.16550.00-0.01-0.14
0.76-0.0160.25660.01-0.01-0.24
0.60-0.016.50.33010.01-0.01-0.40
0.44-0.0170.33410.01-0.01-0.57
0.30-0.017.50.28540.01-0.01-0.70
0.20-0.0180.22220.01-0.01-0.81
0.14-0.018.50.16580.00-0.01-0.87
0.10-0.0190.12410.00-0.01-0.91
0.08-0.019.50.09600.00-0.00-0.93
0.07-0.00100.07750.00-0.00-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3.568.51113.5173K0
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

spot16.51116356560K60K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 303K call contracts, 193K 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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