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

FIVN max pain

Spot (delayed)$37.7
Max pain · Fri, Jan 21$7.5-80.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$21.65±57.4% by Fri, Jan 21
Put/Call OI0.451K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$2.5largest call OI
Put wall$37.5largest put OI
IV3081.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$76per 1% move · flip ≈ $37.5

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

spot7.531324344555$10M$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 — 7.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 21

spot7.52.512.522.532.542.555832832
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FIVN open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 21.

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 21

spot7.52.512.522.532.542.55511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 21

spot31324344555127%65%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 67.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 21

spotflip 37.52.512.522.532.542.555+$5K−$5K
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 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.00200.00600.08-0.01-0.11
0.86-0.0022.50.00720.09-0.01-0.13
0.83-0.01250.00840.10-0.01-0.17
0.80-0.0127.50.00940.12-0.01-0.20
0.77-0.01300.01040.13-0.01-0.23
0.74-0.0132.50.01120.14-0.01-0.27
0.71-0.01350.01180.14-0.01-0.30
0.68-0.0137.50.01230.15-0.01-0.33
0.65-0.01400.01270.15-0.01-0.37
0.62-0.0142.50.01300.16-0.01-0.40
0.59-0.01450.01330.16-0.01-0.43
0.56-0.0147.50.01340.17-0.01-0.46
0.54-0.01500.01350.17-0.01-0.49
0.49-0.01550.01350.17-0.01-0.54

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 21 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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