Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 17, 11:53 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$74.3
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$72-3.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.65±10.3% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.16244 puts / 210 calls
Call wall$75largest call OI
Put wall$58largest put OI
IV3045.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$27Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $75

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$71-4.4%5d
Fri, Oct 30$70-5.8%12d
Fri, Nov 6$72-3.1%19d
Fri, Nov 13$72-3.1%26d
Fri, Nov 20$70-5.8%33d
Fri, Nov 27$69-7.1%40d
Fri, Dec 18$60-19.2%61d
Fri, Jan 15$65-12.5%89d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot72556269768390$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 — 72 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DOCU 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

spot725560677278852626
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot55626976839090%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 75556067727885+$18K−$18K
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
0.82-0.05670.02660.06-0.05-0.18
0.79-0.05680.02940.06-0.05-0.21
0.76-0.05690.03200.07-0.06-0.24
0.72-0.06700.03450.07-0.06-0.28
0.69-0.06710.03670.07-0.06-0.32
0.65-0.06720.03870.08-0.06-0.36
0.61-0.07730.04020.08-0.07-0.40
0.52-0.07750.04200.08-0.07-0.48
0.48-0.07760.04210.08-0.07-0.52
0.44-0.07770.04180.08-0.07-0.56
0.40-0.07780.04100.08-0.07-0.60
0.36-0.06790.03970.08-0.06-0.64
0.33-0.06800.03820.07-0.06-0.68
0.29-0.06810.03630.07-0.06-0.71
0.26-0.06820.03420.07-0.06-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4554616875823440
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

spot22.550617282.51157K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 57K call contracts, 65K 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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