Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 22, 7:03 PM ET

FDX max pain

Spot (delayed)$296.41
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$300+1.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$33.98±11.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI3.85967 puts / 251 calls
Call wall$300largest call OI
Put wall$280largest put OI
IV3027.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$498Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Sep 25$302.5+2.1%3d
Fri, Oct 2$307.5+3.7%10d
Fri, Oct 9$320+8.0%17d
Fri, Oct 16$320+8.0%24d
Fri, Oct 23$315+6.3%31d
Fri, Oct 30$310+4.6%38d
Fri, Nov 20$300+1.2%59d
Fri, Dec 18$310+4.6%87d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot300185232279326373420$9M$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 — 300 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot300185220260300340380407407
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FDX 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

spot3001852202603003403806868
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot18523227932637342058%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot185220260300340380+$293K$293K
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
0.95-0.032300.00200.12-0.04-0.05
0.93-0.052400.00300.17-0.06-0.07
0.89-0.072500.00410.23-0.07-0.11
0.84-0.092600.00540.29-0.09-0.16
0.77-0.112700.00680.36-0.11-0.23
0.70-0.132800.00800.42-0.13-0.31
0.61-0.142900.00890.46-0.14-0.40
0.52-0.143000.00940.48-0.14-0.49
0.42-0.143100.00930.47-0.14-0.59
0.34-0.133200.00870.44-0.13-0.68
0.26-0.113300.00780.39-0.12-0.76
0.20-0.103400.00670.34-0.10-0.82
0.15-0.083500.00550.28-0.08-0.88
0.11-0.073600.00440.23-0.07-0.92
0.08-0.063700.00350.18-0.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot270292.5312.5332.53604008410
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

spot155235280312.53453953K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 21K call contracts, 20K 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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