Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 4:39 PM ET

ENTG max pain

Spot (delayed)$140.69
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$150+6.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$41.8±29.7% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI1.21763 puts / 629 calls
Call wall$220largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3080.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$19Kper 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$150+6.6%25d
Fri, Dec 18$160+13.7%53d
Fri, Jan 15$120-14.7%81d
Fri, Feb 19$150+6.6%116d
Fri, May 21$160+13.7%207d
Fri, Dec 17$115-18.3%417d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1505598141184227270$6M$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 — 150 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot1505590125160195260179179
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ENTG open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot150559012516019526011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot559814118422727094%61%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 67.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot5590125160195260+$18K−$18K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.82-0.061050.00440.20-0.06-0.17
0.80-0.061100.00500.22-0.07-0.20
0.76-0.071150.00550.24-0.07-0.23
0.73-0.071200.00590.26-0.08-0.27
0.70-0.081250.00640.28-0.08-0.30
0.66-0.081300.00670.29-0.08-0.34
0.63-0.081350.00700.30-0.09-0.37
0.59-0.091400.00730.31-0.09-0.41
0.55-0.091450.00740.31-0.09-0.45
0.52-0.091500.00760.32-0.09-0.49
0.48-0.091550.00760.32-0.09-0.52
0.45-0.091600.00760.31-0.09-0.56
0.41-0.091650.00750.31-0.08-0.59
0.38-0.081700.00730.30-0.08-0.62
0.35-0.081750.00710.29-0.08-0.66

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.572.5951351802502K0
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

spot32.560851201702403K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 17K call contracts, 11K 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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