Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 11, 10:27 PM ET

GE max pain

Spot (delayed)$308.2
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$315+2.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$27.6±9.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI2.03236 puts / 116 calls
Call wall$320largest call OI
Put wall$290largest put OI
IV3037.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$106Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedTue, Oct 20usually before the open

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Oct 16$320+3.8%4d
Fri, Oct 23$310+0.6%11d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Oct 20)
Fri, Oct 30$310+0.6%18d
Fri, Nov 6$300-2.7%25d
Fri, Nov 13$315+2.2%32d
Fri, Nov 20$320+3.8%39d
Fri, Nov 27$320+3.8%46d
Fri, Dec 18$340+10.3%67d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot315200246292338384430$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 — 315 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot3152002402903353804204949
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GE 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

spot3152002402903353804203131
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot20024629233838443069%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot200240290335380420+$43K−$43K
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
0.85-0.132750.00630.23-0.13-0.15
0.81-0.142800.00720.26-0.14-0.19
0.77-0.162850.00820.29-0.16-0.23
0.73-0.172900.00910.32-0.17-0.27
0.68-0.182950.00990.34-0.19-0.32
0.63-0.193000.01060.36-0.20-0.38
0.57-0.203050.01110.38-0.20-0.43
0.52-0.203100.01130.38-0.20-0.49
0.46-0.203150.01130.38-0.20-0.55
0.41-0.193200.01110.37-0.20-0.60
0.30-0.173300.01010.33-0.18-0.71
0.26-0.163350.00930.31-0.16-0.75
0.21-0.143400.00850.28-0.15-0.80
0.18-0.133450.00760.25-0.13-0.83
0.15-0.113500.00670.22-0.12-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 43 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot195297.532034539043515K0
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

spot12019028031537046023K23K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 120K call contracts, 107K 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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