Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 12:04 AM ET

HIMS max pain

Spot (delayed)$27.59
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$29+5.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.02±18.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.676K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$30largest call OI
Put wall$29largest put OI
IV3087.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$74Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $34

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$28.5+3.3%3d
Fri, Nov 6$29+5.1%10d
Fri, Nov 13$29+5.1%17d
Fri, Nov 20$29+5.1%24d
Fri, Nov 27$29+5.1%31d
Fri, Dec 4$28+1.5%38d
Fri, Dec 18$33+19.6%52d
Fri, Jan 15$27-2.1%80d
Fri, Feb 19$31+12.4%115d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot29182227313640$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 — 29 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot291822263034382K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HIMS 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

spot29182226303438389389
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot182227313640139%94%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 101.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 34182226303438+$41K−$41K
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
0.91-0.03210.02620.01-0.03-0.09
0.87-0.03220.03400.01-0.04-0.13
0.83-0.04230.04190.02-0.04-0.17
0.77-0.05240.04920.02-0.05-0.23
0.71-0.06250.05530.02-0.06-0.29
0.65-0.06260.05980.02-0.06-0.35
0.59-0.07270.06250.02-0.07-0.41
0.52-0.07280.06350.02-0.07-0.48
0.46-0.07290.06290.02-0.07-0.54
0.41-0.07300.06100.02-0.07-0.59
0.35-0.07310.05800.02-0.07-0.65
0.31-0.06320.05440.02-0.06-0.70
0.26-0.06330.05020.02-0.06-0.74
0.23-0.05340.04590.02-0.05-0.78
0.19-0.05350.04150.02-0.05-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot15232731353912K0
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

spot32127.533.539.55541K41K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 443K call contracts, 289K 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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