Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 7:58 PM ET

ENPH max pain

Spot (delayed)$30.04
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$34+13.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.7±15.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.171K puts / 984 calls
Call wall$35largest call OI
Put wall$28largest put OI
IV3076.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$15Kper 1% move

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 30$32+6.5%4d
Fri, Nov 6$33+9.9%11d
Fri, Nov 13$34+13.2%18d
Fri, Nov 20$35+16.5%25d
Fri, Nov 27$33+9.9%32d
Fri, Dec 4$32+6.5%39d
Fri, Dec 18$40+33.2%53d
Fri, Jan 15$40+33.2%81d
Fri, Feb 19$35+16.5%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot34202530354045$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 — 34 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot342025303540386386
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ENPH 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

spot3420253035405656
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot202530354045203%73%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 88.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot2025303540+$17K−$17K
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
0.92-0.02230.02380.01-0.03-0.08
0.89-0.03240.03120.01-0.03-0.11
0.85-0.04250.03920.02-0.04-0.15
0.80-0.04260.04720.02-0.05-0.20
0.74-0.05270.05440.02-0.05-0.26
0.68-0.06280.06020.02-0.06-0.32
0.61-0.06290.06430.03-0.06-0.39
0.55-0.07300.06650.03-0.07-0.45
0.48-0.07310.06670.03-0.07-0.52
0.42-0.07320.06530.03-0.07-0.58
0.36-0.06330.06250.03-0.06-0.64
0.31-0.06340.05850.02-0.06-0.70
0.26-0.05350.05380.02-0.05-0.75
0.22-0.05360.04860.02-0.05-0.79
0.18-0.04370.04320.02-0.04-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot222831.53538.5432K0
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

spot152633406513530K30K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 228K call contracts, 154K 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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