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 27$69-7.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.25±12.4% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.1319 puts / 147 calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3045.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$22Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $69

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

spot69606672788490$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 — 69 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DOCU 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

spot6960636776818644
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot60667278849053%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 69606367768186+$6K−$6K
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
0.90-0.03610.01350.04-0.03-0.10
0.89-0.03620.01510.05-0.03-0.11
0.88-0.03630.01690.05-0.03-0.13
0.86-0.03640.01880.06-0.03-0.14
0.81-0.04660.02280.07-0.04-0.19
0.79-0.04670.02490.07-0.04-0.21
0.73-0.04690.02880.08-0.04-0.27
0.60-0.05730.03430.10-0.05-0.40
0.50-0.05760.03570.10-0.05-0.51
0.46-0.05770.03560.10-0.05-0.54
0.36-0.05800.03370.10-0.05-0.65
0.33-0.05810.03260.09-0.05-0.68
0.28-0.04830.02990.09-0.05-0.73
0.23-0.04850.02680.08-0.04-0.79
0.21-0.04860.02510.07-0.04-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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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