Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 6:04 PM ET

HON max pain

Spot (delayed)$212.41
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$210-1.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$17.05±8.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.893K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$220largest call OI
Put wall$190largest put OI
IV3033.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$406Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $230

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 16$210-1.1%today
Fri, Oct 23$210-1.1%7d
Fri, Oct 30$210-1.1%14d
Fri, Nov 6$210-1.1%21d
Fri, Nov 13$210-1.1%28d
Fri, Nov 20$210-1.1%35d
Fri, Nov 27$205-3.5%42d
Fri, Dec 18$220+3.6%63d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot210150176202228254280$15M$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 — 210 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot2101501701902202601K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HON 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

spot210150170190220260115115
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot15017620222825428060%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 230150170190220260+$806K−$806K
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
0.97-0.031700.00280.05-0.03-0.04
0.95-0.041750.00390.07-0.04-0.06
0.93-0.051800.00530.09-0.05-0.08
0.90-0.061850.00720.12-0.06-0.10
0.86-0.071900.00950.14-0.08-0.14
0.81-0.091950.01210.18-0.09-0.20
0.75-0.102000.01490.21-0.10-0.26
0.57-0.122100.01900.26-0.12-0.43
0.39-0.112200.01870.25-0.11-0.62
0.23-0.092300.01460.20-0.09-0.77
0.13-0.072400.00980.14-0.06-0.87
0.07-0.042500.00610.09-0.04-0.93
0.04-0.032600.00370.06-0.03-0.96
0.03-0.022700.00230.04-0.02-0.98
0.01-0.012800.00140.03-0.02-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot110190212.52302553109K0
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

spot105160192.522025030512K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 53K call contracts, 20K 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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