Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 2:40 AM ET

FSLY max pain

Spot (delayed)$25.7
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$25-2.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6±23.3% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.471K puts / 867 calls
Call wall$25largest call OI
Put wall$21.5largest put OI
IV30113.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$6Kper 1% move

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, Oct 30$24-6.6%4d
Fri, Nov 6$25-2.7%11d
Fri, Nov 13$25-2.7%18d
Fri, Nov 20$25-2.7%25d
Fri, Nov 27$22-14.4%32d
Fri, Dec 4$24-6.6%39d
Fri, Dec 18$22.5-12.4%53d
Fri, Jan 15$15-41.6%81d
Fri, Mar 19$25-2.7%144d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot25141823273236$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 — 25 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot25142023.526.529.533666666
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FSLY open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot25142023.526.529.5335252
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot141823273236200%125%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 132.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot142023.526.529.533+$17K−$17K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.75-0.07220.04190.02-0.07-0.25
0.73-0.0722.50.04400.02-0.07-0.28
0.70-0.07230.04590.02-0.07-0.30
0.68-0.0723.50.04760.02-0.08-0.33
0.65-0.08240.04910.02-0.08-0.35
0.62-0.0824.50.05030.02-0.08-0.38
0.60-0.08250.05120.02-0.08-0.41
0.57-0.0825.50.05200.02-0.08-0.43
0.55-0.08260.05250.02-0.08-0.46
0.52-0.0826.50.05270.02-0.08-0.48
0.49-0.08270.05280.02-0.08-0.51
0.47-0.0827.50.05260.02-0.08-0.53
0.45-0.08280.05220.02-0.08-0.56
0.42-0.0828.50.05160.02-0.08-0.58
0.40-0.08290.05090.02-0.08-0.60

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1419.523.527.531.5382K0
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

spot2.5172227324142K42K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 94K call contracts, 97K 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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