Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:13 AM ET

FUBO max pain

Spot (delayed)$7.9
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$8+1.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.31±16.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.83663 puts / 796 calls
Call wall$8largest call OI
Put wall$7largest put OI
IV3086.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $7

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$7.5-5.1%4d
Fri, Nov 6$3-62.0%11d
Fri, Nov 13$8+1.3%18d
Fri, Nov 20$10+26.6%25d
Fri, Nov 27$1-87.3%32d
Fri, Dec 4$1-87.3%39d
Fri, Dec 18$8+1.3%53d
Fri, Jan 15$10+26.6%81d
Fri, Feb 19$9+13.9%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8148111518$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 — 8 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot8147101316421421
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FUBO 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

spot81471013165555
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot5710121517326%80%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 85.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 7147101316+$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, Nov 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00-0.0010.00120.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0020.00330.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.0030.00780.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0040.01750.00-0.00-0.02
0.95-0.0150.03980.00-0.01-0.04
0.90-0.0160.09120.00-0.01-0.10
0.76-0.0170.18720.01-0.01-0.24
0.53-0.0180.25240.01-0.01-0.47
0.32-0.0190.21210.01-0.01-0.69
0.19-0.01100.14840.01-0.01-0.81
0.12-0.01110.10090.00-0.01-0.89
0.08-0.01120.06960.00-0.01-0.93
0.05-0.01130.04910.00-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.00140.03550.00-0.01-0.97
0.03-0.00150.02620.00-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1581012161K0
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

spot16.59.512.5162211K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 37K call contracts, 10K 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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