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

GDDY max pain

Spot (delayed)$109.11
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$90-17.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$22.4±20.5% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.04422 puts / 11K calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$92.5largest put OI
IV3057.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $90

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 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

spot90436588110133155$68M$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 — 90 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot9042.56580951201505K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GDDY open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot9042.565809512015066
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot43658811013315595%43%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 45.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 9042.5608092.5110135+$590K−$590K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.0387.50.00810.15-0.03-0.17
0.81-0.03900.00890.17-0.04-0.19
0.79-0.0392.50.00980.18-0.04-0.22
0.76-0.04950.01060.19-0.04-0.24
0.73-0.0497.50.01140.20-0.04-0.28
0.70-0.041000.01210.21-0.04-0.31
0.63-0.041050.01330.23-0.05-0.38
0.56-0.051100.01410.24-0.05-0.45
0.49-0.051150.01440.25-0.05-0.52
0.43-0.041200.01430.24-0.05-0.59
0.36-0.041250.01370.23-0.04-0.66
0.31-0.041300.01280.22-0.04-0.72
0.26-0.041350.01170.20-0.04-0.77
0.21-0.031400.01060.18-0.03-0.82
0.17-0.031450.00940.16-0.03-0.86

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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