Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 6:33 PM ET

FBIN max pain

Spot (delayed)$42.41
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$40-5.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.75±11.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.421K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$45largest call OI
Put wall$35largest put OI
IV3046.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$5Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

Event risk before this expiration: 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$40-5.7%23d
Fri, Dec 18$45+6.1%51d
Fri, Jan 15$40-5.7%79d
Fri, Mar 19$40-5.7%142d
Thu, Jun 17$45+6.1%232d
Fri, Jan 21$30-29.3%450d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot40303540455055$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 — 40 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot403035404550724724
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FBIN 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

spot403035404550630630
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot303540455055141%48%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 503035404550+$84K−$84K
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
0.97-0.01300.00840.01-0.01-0.04
0.95-0.0232.50.01440.01-0.02-0.06
0.91-0.02350.02480.02-0.03-0.10
0.84-0.0337.50.04190.03-0.03-0.17
0.72-0.04400.06540.04-0.04-0.30
0.53-0.0442.50.08260.04-0.04-0.49
0.34-0.04450.07550.04-0.04-0.68
0.20-0.0347.50.05500.03-0.03-0.81
0.13-0.03500.03710.02-0.02-0.88
0.06-0.01550.01740.01-0.02-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2537.547.565852K0
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

spot2030405060804K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 3K 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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