Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 12:11 AM ET

FISV max pain

Spot (delayed)$47.31
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$49+3.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.2±11.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.251K puts / 862 calls
Call wall$55largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3051.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$38Kper 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$47.5+0.4%3d
Fri, Nov 6$48+1.5%10d
Fri, Nov 13$49+3.6%17d
Fri, Nov 20$48+1.5%24d
Fri, Nov 27$45-4.9%31d
Fri, Dec 4$51+7.8%38d
Fri, Dec 18$55+16.3%52d
Fri, Jan 15$50+5.7%80d
Fri, Mar 19$50+5.7%143d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot49374246515560$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 — 49 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot49374145495357486486
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FISV 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

spot49374145495357165165
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot37424651556075%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 63.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot374145495357+$58K−$58K
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
0.90-0.03400.02610.02-0.04-0.10
0.87-0.04410.03190.02-0.04-0.14
0.83-0.05420.03800.03-0.05-0.17
0.78-0.06430.04400.03-0.06-0.22
0.73-0.06440.04970.03-0.06-0.27
0.68-0.07450.05460.04-0.07-0.32
0.62-0.07460.05840.04-0.07-0.38
0.56-0.07470.06090.04-0.08-0.44
0.50-0.08480.06190.04-0.08-0.50
0.44-0.07490.06140.04-0.07-0.56
0.38-0.07500.05950.04-0.07-0.62
0.33-0.07510.05630.04-0.07-0.68
0.28-0.06520.05230.03-0.06-0.73
0.23-0.06530.04760.03-0.06-0.78
0.19-0.05540.04260.03-0.05-0.81

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

spot3039.545.548.553592K0
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

spot25476010014019523K23K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 186K call contracts, 96K 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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