Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 19, 3:42 AM ET

FRT max pain

Spot (delayed)$117.48
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$110-6.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.13±7.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.48202 puts / 419 calls
Call wall$130largest call OI
Put wall$80largest put OI
IV3015.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$104Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · 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, Aug 21$110-6.4%2d
Fri, Sep 18$120+2.1%30d
Fri, Nov 20$110-6.4%93d
Fri, Feb 19$110-6.4%184d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot110658299116133150$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 — 110 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1106585100115130145112112
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FRT 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

spot11065851001151301451212
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot759010512013515060%17%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 18.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 1106585100115130145+$35K$35K
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
0.97-0.00800.00260.04-0.01-0.04
0.96-0.01850.00380.05-0.01-0.05
0.95-0.01900.00540.06-0.01-0.06
0.93-0.01950.00790.08-0.02-0.08
0.90-0.011000.01150.11-0.02-0.12
0.84-0.021050.01690.14-0.02-0.17
0.76-0.021100.02460.18-0.02-0.25
0.63-0.021150.03390.22-0.02-0.39
0.45-0.021200.03860.23-0.02-0.59
0.28-0.021250.03240.20-0.02-0.77
0.17-0.011300.02290.15-0.01-0.87
0.12-0.011350.01580.12-0.01-0.92
0.08-0.011400.01110.09-0.01-0.95
0.06-0.011450.00800.07-0.00-0.97
0.04-0.011500.00600.060.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot751051201351501K0
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

spot55801051301551801K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 4K call contracts, 2K 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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