Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 20, 1:23 PM ET

GLND max pain

Spot (delayed)$2.96
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$4+35.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.93±31.3% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.595K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$5largest call OI
Put wall$3largest put OI
IV30130.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5

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 23$3+1.4%3d
Fri, Oct 30$3.5+18.2%10d
Fri, Nov 6$2.5-15.5%17d
Fri, Nov 13$2.5-15.5%24d
Fri, Nov 20$4+35.1%31d
Fri, Nov 27$3+1.4%38d
Fri, Dec 18$4+35.1%59d
Fri, Jan 15$3+1.4%87d
Fri, Feb 19$2-32.4%122d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot413571012$6M$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 — 4 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot40.523.568123K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GLND 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

spot40.523.568121K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot13581012464%108%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 129.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 512.546.59+$5K−$5K
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
1.00-0.010.50.01140.00-0.00-0.01
1.00-0.0110.03610.00-0.00-0.04
0.99-0.011.50.06760.00-0.00-0.08
0.92-0.0120.32290.00-0.01-0.15
0.73-0.012.50.41540.00-0.01-0.30
0.51-0.0130.36730.00-0.01-0.46
0.38-0.013.50.28940.00-0.01-0.56
0.31-0.0140.23430.00-0.01-0.63
0.23-0.0150.17040.00-0.01-0.69
0.19-0.0160.13580.00-0.01-0.73
0.18-0.016.50.12380.00-0.01-0.74
0.17-0.0170.11420.00-0.01-0.75
0.15-0.0180.09940.00-0.01-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot12.545.598440
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

spot0.52.54.56.58.51214K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 35K call contracts, 12K 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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