Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 2:28 AM ET

DXPE max pain

Spot (delayed)$155.61
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$170+9.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$21.75±14.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.49212 puts / 436 calls
Call wall$190largest call OI
Put wall$145largest put OI
IV3060.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$65Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

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, Nov 20$170+9.2%26d
Fri, Dec 18$135-13.2%54d
Fri, Feb 19$100-35.7%117d
Fri, May 21$135-13.2%208d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot17075112149186223260$4M$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 — 170 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot170751051401651902309595
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DXPE 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

spot1707510514016519023011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot75112149186223260199%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 63.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 11075105145170195240+$23K−$23K
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
0.93-0.101100.00330.06-0.10-0.07
0.89-0.121200.00500.08-0.12-0.11
0.84-0.141300.00750.10-0.14-0.16
0.80-0.151350.00910.12-0.15-0.20
0.76-0.161400.01080.14-0.16-0.24
0.70-0.171450.01260.15-0.17-0.30
0.63-0.181500.01400.16-0.18-0.37
0.56-0.191550.01480.17-0.19-0.45
0.48-0.191600.01500.17-0.19-0.52
0.41-0.191650.01450.17-0.19-0.59
0.35-0.181700.01350.16-0.18-0.65
0.30-0.171750.01230.15-0.17-0.70
0.26-0.161800.01110.14-0.17-0.75
0.22-0.151850.00990.13-0.16-0.79
0.19-0.141900.00880.12-0.15-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 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

spot651001351702102809595
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 467 call contracts, 227 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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