Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 5:26 PM ET

GDDY max pain

Spot (delayed)$109.18
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$104-4.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.65±9.8% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI0.97282 puts / 292 calls
Call wall$104largest call OI
Put wall$105largest put OI
IV3057.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$21Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $85

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$106-2.9%4d
Fri, Nov 6$104-4.7%11d
Fri, Nov 13$105-3.8%18d
Fri, Nov 20$100-8.4%25d
Fri, Nov 27$103-5.7%32d
Fri, Dec 4$96-12.1%39d
Fri, Dec 18$115+5.3%53d
Fri, Jan 15$90-17.6%81d
Fri, Feb 19$90-17.6%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot104758697108119130$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 — 104 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot104758895103110125141141
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GDDY open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot1047588951031101251515
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot758697108119130162%63%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 69.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spotflip 85758895103110125+$41K−$41K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.75-0.211010.02170.06-0.21-0.25
0.73-0.221020.02280.06-0.22-0.28
0.70-0.231030.02390.07-0.23-0.30
0.68-0.241040.02480.07-0.24-0.33
0.65-0.241050.02560.07-0.24-0.35
0.62-0.251060.02640.07-0.25-0.38
0.60-0.251070.02690.07-0.26-0.41
0.54-0.261090.02760.08-0.26-0.46
0.51-0.261100.02770.08-0.26-0.49
0.49-0.261110.02770.08-0.26-0.52
0.46-0.261120.02750.08-0.26-0.54
0.41-0.261140.02670.07-0.26-0.59
0.38-0.251150.02620.07-0.25-0.62
0.32-0.241180.02400.07-0.24-0.69
0.20-0.191250.01780.05-0.19-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot60971031091151221630
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

spot4572.5901041151455K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 20K call contracts, 8K 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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