Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 2:30 AM ET

ELV max pain

Spot (delayed)$439.95
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$410-6.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$93.55±21.3% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI1.67938 puts / 562 calls
Call wall$440largest call OI
Put wall$410largest put OI
IV3029.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$66Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$420-4.5%26d
Fri, Dec 18$400-9.1%54d
Fri, Jan 15$370-15.9%82d
Fri, Mar 19$400-9.1%145d
Thu, Jun 17$410-6.8%235d
Fri, Sep 17$460+4.6%327d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot410220300380460540620$14M$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 — 410 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ELV open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot41022028034040046054011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot22030038046054062045%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot220290350410470560+$247K−$247K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.80-0.073700.00230.98-0.07-0.21
0.78-0.073800.00251.06-0.08-0.23
0.75-0.083900.00271.13-0.08-0.26
0.72-0.084000.00291.19-0.09-0.29
0.69-0.084100.00301.25-0.09-0.33
0.66-0.094200.00321.30-0.09-0.36
0.62-0.094300.00331.34-0.10-0.39
0.59-0.094400.00341.37-0.10-0.43
0.56-0.094500.00341.39-0.10-0.46
0.52-0.094600.00351.40-0.10-0.50
0.49-0.094700.00351.40-0.10-0.54
0.46-0.094800.00351.39-0.10-0.57
0.42-0.094900.00351.37-0.10-0.61
0.39-0.095000.00341.35-0.10-0.64
0.33-0.085200.00331.28-0.09-0.71

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1602403304205106001K0
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

spot1402003204405606802K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 14K call contracts, 13K 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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