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

ENPH max pain

Spot (delayed)$30.04
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$40+33.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.43±24.7% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.4238K puts / 89K calls
Call wall$180largest call OI
Put wall$35largest put OI
IV3076.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$196Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $17.5

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, 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

spot40154881114147180$837M$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 — 40 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot40153565951251559K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ENPH open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot40153565951251551K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot154881114147180188%61%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 65.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 17.515356595125155+$246K−$246K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.00150.00400.01-0.00-0.02
0.97-0.0017.50.00750.01-0.01-0.03
0.93-0.01200.01410.02-0.01-0.07
0.87-0.0122.50.02270.03-0.01-0.13
0.78-0.02250.03120.04-0.02-0.22
0.58-0.02300.04190.06-0.02-0.43
0.39-0.02350.04030.05-0.02-0.62
0.25-0.02400.03260.04-0.02-0.77
0.16-0.01450.02400.03-0.01-0.87
0.10-0.01500.01720.03-0.01-0.93
0.07-0.01550.01270.02-0.01-0.96
0.05-0.01600.00960.02-0.01-0.98
0.04-0.01650.00760.01-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 36 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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