Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 2:30 AM ET

FUTU max pain

Spot (delayed)$99.9
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$115+15.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.98±9.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI3.06676 puts / 221 calls
Call wall$120largest call OI
Put wall$110largest put OI
IV3049.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$139Kper 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$110+10.1%4d
Fri, Nov 6$110+10.1%11d
Fri, Nov 13$115+15.1%18d
Fri, Nov 20$107.45+7.6%25d
Fri, Nov 27$110+10.1%32d
Fri, Dec 4$106+6.1%39d
Fri, Dec 18$105+5.1%53d
Fri, Jan 15$120.5+20.6%81d
Fri, Feb 19$105+5.1%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1158092104116128140$2M$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 — 115 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1158098105112119135209209
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FUTU 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

spot115809810511211913533
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot8092104116128140101%39%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot8098105112119135+$47K−$47K
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
0.81-0.08900.02190.07-0.08-0.19
0.77-0.09920.02550.07-0.09-0.24
0.68-0.10950.03060.09-0.10-0.33
0.65-0.10960.03200.09-0.10-0.36
0.62-0.11970.03310.09-0.11-0.39
0.58-0.11980.03400.09-0.11-0.42
0.55-0.11990.03460.10-0.11-0.46
0.51-0.111000.03500.10-0.11-0.49
0.48-0.111010.03500.10-0.11-0.53
0.44-0.111020.03470.09-0.11-0.56
0.41-0.111030.03410.09-0.11-0.60
0.38-0.101040.03330.09-0.11-0.63
0.35-0.101050.03230.09-0.10-0.66
0.32-0.101060.03110.09-0.10-0.69
0.29-0.091070.02970.08-0.10-0.72

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 37 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot991051111171231292740
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

spot25.570.595115140172.454K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 35K call contracts, 46K 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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