Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 2:46 AM ET

FIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$37.7
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$20-46.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.8±26.0% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.388K puts / 22K calls
Call wall$20largest call OI
Put wall$32.5largest put OI
IV3081.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$216Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $7.5

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, Nov 20$35-7.2%26d
Fri, Dec 18$25-33.7%54d
Fri, Jan 15$20-46.9%82d
Fri, Apr 16$30-20.4%173d
Fri, Dec 17$17.5-53.6%418d
Fri, Jan 21$7.5-80.1%453d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot2031528405365$82M$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 — 20 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot202.512.522.532.542.552.59K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FIVN 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

spot202.512.522.532.542.552.55050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot31528405365261%25%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 68.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 7.52.51525354555+$67K−$67K
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
0.96-0.01200.00540.01-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.0122.50.00830.02-0.01-0.06
0.91-0.01250.01210.03-0.01-0.09
0.86-0.0227.50.01660.04-0.02-0.14
0.80-0.02300.02140.05-0.02-0.20
0.73-0.0332.50.02580.06-0.03-0.27
0.66-0.03350.02900.07-0.03-0.34
0.58-0.0337.50.03090.07-0.03-0.42
0.51-0.03400.03140.07-0.03-0.50
0.43-0.0342.50.03080.07-0.03-0.57
0.37-0.03450.02940.07-0.03-0.64
0.32-0.0347.50.02750.06-0.03-0.69
0.27-0.03500.02520.06-0.03-0.74
0.23-0.0252.50.02280.05-0.02-0.79
0.19-0.02550.02050.05-0.02-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 24 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2.512.522.532.542.552.59K0
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

spot2.512.522.532.542.552.510K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 32K 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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