Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:07 AM ET

FLNC max pain

Spot (delayed)$5.61
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$8+42.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.15±20.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.3114K puts / 45K calls
Call wall$22largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3089.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $4

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, Nov 20$8+42.6%25d
Fri, Dec 18$6+7.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$9+60.4%81d
Fri, Feb 19$11+96.1%116d
Fri, May 21$7+24.8%207d
Fri, Jan 21$15+167.4%452d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot81917263442$103M$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 — 8 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot818152229367K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FLNC 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

spot81815222936354354
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot31119263442294%74%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 42915212735+$24K−$24K
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
0.99-0.0010.00550.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0020.01590.00-0.00-0.02
0.96-0.0030.04040.00-0.00-0.05
0.90-0.0140.10490.00-0.01-0.11
0.73-0.0150.24080.01-0.01-0.28
0.45-0.0160.28870.01-0.01-0.56
0.25-0.0170.21160.01-0.01-0.76
0.14-0.0180.13970.00-0.01-0.86
0.09-0.0190.09220.00-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.00100.06200.00-0.00-0.96
0.04-0.00110.04260.00-0.00-0.98
0.03-0.00120.02990.00-0.00-0.99
0.02-0.00130.02140.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 42 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot191725334120K0
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

spot191725334124K24K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 150K call contracts, 56K 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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