Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 5:54 PM ET

GDDY max pain

Spot (delayed)$109.11
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$100-8.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.05±12.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.465K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$125largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3057.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$137Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $125

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$106-2.9%4d
Fri, Nov 6$104-4.7%11d
Fri, Nov 13$105-3.8%18d
Fri, Nov 20$100-8.3%25d
Fri, Nov 27$103-5.6%32d
Fri, Dec 4$96-12.0%39d
Fri, Dec 18$115+5.4%53d
Fri, Jan 15$90-17.5%81d
Fri, Feb 19$90-17.5%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot100406386109132155$20M$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 — 100 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1004067.587.599110125728728
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GDDY 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

spot1004067.587.5991101254141
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot456789111133155222%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 56.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 12542.57090100111130+$126K−$126K
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
0.77-0.10990.01770.09-0.11-0.24
0.75-0.111000.01860.09-0.11-0.26
0.73-0.111010.01940.10-0.12-0.28
0.66-0.121040.02150.10-0.13-0.34
0.64-0.131050.02210.11-0.13-0.36
0.62-0.131060.02260.11-0.13-0.39
0.57-0.131080.02330.11-0.13-0.44
0.55-0.131090.02360.11-0.13-0.46
0.52-0.131100.02370.11-0.14-0.48
0.50-0.131110.02370.12-0.14-0.51
0.48-0.131120.02370.11-0.14-0.53
0.46-0.131130.02350.11-0.14-0.55
0.41-0.131150.02300.11-0.13-0.60
0.39-0.131160.02260.11-0.13-0.62
0.37-0.131170.02220.11-0.13-0.64

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 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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