Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 13, 1:35 AM ET

FRT max pain

Spot (delayed)$106.42
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$110+3.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.35±6.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI3.032K puts / 509 calls
Call wall$130largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3019.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$69Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Oct 16$105-1.3%3d
Fri, Nov 20$110+3.4%38d
Fri, Feb 19$110+3.4%129d
Fri, May 21$100-6.0%220d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot110658299116133150$3M$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

spot1106585100115130145718718
■ 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

spot11065851001151301451414
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot759010512013515087%19%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 22.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot6585100115130145+$98K−$98K
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
0.96-0.03650.00260.03-0.03-0.04
0.94-0.03750.00450.04-0.04-0.06
0.93-0.04800.00600.05-0.04-0.07
0.91-0.04850.00840.06-0.04-0.09
0.88-0.04900.01210.07-0.04-0.11
0.84-0.04950.01840.08-0.04-0.16
0.77-0.041000.03040.11-0.04-0.23
0.60-0.041050.05280.13-0.04-0.40
0.33-0.031100.05180.13-0.03-0.67
0.19-0.031150.03090.10-0.03-0.81
0.14-0.031200.01990.08-0.03-0.87
0.10-0.031250.01410.06-0.03-0.90
0.09-0.031300.01060.06-0.03-0.92
0.07-0.031350.00830.05-0.03-0.93
0.06-0.031400.00680.04-0.03-0.94

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

spot901051151251351452K0
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

spot55801051301551802K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 3K 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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