Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 2:32 AM ET

GEHC max pain

Spot (delayed)$71.45
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$70-2.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.53±9.1% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.5532 puts / 58 calls
Call wall$71largest call OI
Put wall$66largest put OI
IV3038.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$7Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $62

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$67-6.2%4d
Fri, Nov 6$66-7.6%11d
Fri, Nov 13$70-2.0%18d
Fri, Nov 20$67.5-5.5%25d
Fri, Nov 27$64-10.4%32d
Fri, Dec 18$67.5-5.5%53d
Fri, Jan 15$70-2.0%81d
Fri, Mar 19$62.5-12.5%144d
Fri, Apr 16$70-2.0%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GEHC 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot56637076839097%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 62566267717590+$6K−$6K
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
0.84-0.05640.02870.04-0.05-0.16
0.81-0.05650.03280.05-0.05-0.19
0.78-0.06660.03710.05-0.06-0.22
0.74-0.06670.04160.06-0.06-0.26
0.70-0.06680.04590.06-0.06-0.30
0.65-0.07690.04980.06-0.07-0.34
0.60-0.07700.05300.07-0.07-0.40
0.55-0.07710.05520.07-0.07-0.45
0.49-0.07720.05610.07-0.07-0.51
0.44-0.07730.05570.07-0.07-0.56
0.38-0.06740.05410.07-0.07-0.62
0.33-0.06750.05140.06-0.06-0.67
0.25-0.05770.04390.05-0.05-0.76
0.15-0.04800.03180.04-0.04-0.85
0.07-0.03850.01680.02-0.03-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5863687378902K0
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

spot305362.572811055K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 37K call contracts, 19K 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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