Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 3:37 AM ET

FUBO max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.82
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$10+1.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.42±34.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.272K puts / 6K calls
Call wall$20largest call OI
Put wall$10largest put OI
IV3074.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$25Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $10

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 14$7-28.7%today
Fri, Aug 21$12+22.2%7d
Fri, Aug 28$5-49.1%14d
Fri, Sep 4$1-89.8%21d
Fri, Sep 11$1-89.8%28d
Fri, Sep 18$11+12.0%35d
Fri, Sep 25$1-89.8%42d
Fri, Nov 20$10+1.8%98d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot103712162125$6M$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 — 10 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1037111519231K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FUBO 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

spot1037111519233030
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot3712162125164%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 84.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 103711151923+$8K$8K
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
0.9930.00640.00-0.00-0.01
0.980.0040.01280.00-0.00-0.02
0.95-0.0050.02330.01-0.00-0.05
0.90-0.0060.03880.01-0.00-0.09
0.83-0.0170.05680.01-0.01-0.16
0.75-0.0180.07310.02-0.01-0.24
0.66-0.0190.08410.02-0.01-0.33
0.57-0.01100.08910.02-0.01-0.42
0.49-0.01110.08920.02-0.01-0.50
0.42-0.01120.08590.02-0.01-0.58
0.35-0.01130.08080.02-0.01-0.64
0.30-0.01140.07470.02-0.01-0.69
0.26-0.01150.06830.02-0.01-0.74
0.22-0.01160.06210.01-0.01-0.77
0.19-0.01170.05620.01-0.01-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot169.51317.5233K0
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

spot169.51316.52010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 43K call contracts, 15K 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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