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 20$70-5.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.81±10.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.632K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$62.5largest put OI
IV3045.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$263Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $80

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

spot704557698193105$6M$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot704557.567.577.5951K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DOCU open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

spot704557.567.577.595216216
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot4557698193105128%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 42.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 804557.567.577.595+$220K−$220K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.94-0.0257.50.00870.03-0.02-0.06
0.92-0.03600.01170.03-0.03-0.08
0.89-0.0362.50.01580.04-0.03-0.11
0.85-0.04650.02110.05-0.04-0.15
0.79-0.0467.50.02670.07-0.05-0.22
0.71-0.05700.03190.08-0.05-0.29
0.62-0.0672.50.03570.09-0.06-0.38
0.53-0.06750.03770.09-0.06-0.48
0.43-0.0677.50.03750.09-0.06-0.57
0.35-0.06800.03540.09-0.06-0.66
0.20-0.04850.02720.07-0.04-0.81
0.12-0.03900.01830.05-0.03-0.90
0.08-0.03950.01250.04-0.03-0.94
0.06-0.021000.00930.03-0.03-0.95
0.05-0.021050.00740.03-0.02-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 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

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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