Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 23, 11:16 PM ET

GTLB max pain

Spot (delayed)$56.35
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$55-2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.95±14.1% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI2.79212 puts / 76 calls
Call wall$55largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3057.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$6Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $44

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$53-5.9%6d
Fri, Nov 6$50-11.3%13d
Fri, Nov 13$56-0.6%20d
Fri, Nov 20$50-11.3%27d
Fri, Nov 27$55-2.4%34d
Fri, Dec 4$50-11.3%41d
Fri, Dec 18$25-55.6%55d
Fri, Jan 15$35-37.9%83d
Fri, Apr 16$57.5+2.0%174d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot55303744515865$1M$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 — 55 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot55304549535764156156
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GTLB open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot553045495357641010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot30374451586584%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 57.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 44304549535764+$8K−$8K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.80-0.04490.02600.05-0.04-0.20
0.77-0.05500.02840.05-0.05-0.23
0.73-0.05510.03080.06-0.05-0.26
0.70-0.05520.03290.06-0.05-0.30
0.67-0.05530.03490.06-0.05-0.33
0.63-0.06540.03650.07-0.06-0.37
0.59-0.06550.03780.07-0.06-0.41
0.55-0.06560.03880.07-0.06-0.45
0.51-0.06570.03930.07-0.06-0.49
0.47-0.06580.03940.07-0.06-0.53
0.44-0.06590.03920.07-0.06-0.56
0.40-0.06600.03850.07-0.06-0.60
0.27-0.05640.03300.06-0.05-0.74
0.24-0.04650.03110.05-0.04-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2539465258642390
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

spot103744506072.525K25K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 115K call contracts, 75K 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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