Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 8:16 PM ET

HUM max pain

Spot (delayed)$413.66
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$410-0.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$21.5±5.2% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI0.983K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$450largest call OI
Put wall$410largest put OI
IV3050.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$454Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $450

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 23$410-0.9%7d
Fri, Oct 30$410-0.9%14d
Fri, Nov 6$425+2.7%21d
Fri, Nov 13$420+1.5%28d
Fri, Nov 20$400-3.3%35d
Fri, Nov 27$460+11.2%42d
Fri, Dec 18$310-25.1%63d
Fri, Jan 15$240-42.0%91d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot410240308376444512580$38M$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 — 410 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot410240335380407.5440480602602
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HUM open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

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, Oct 23

spot410240335380407.5440480656656
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot270332394456518580182%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spotflip 450240335380407.5440480+$915K−$915K
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, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.80-0.55392.50.01050.16-0.55-0.21
0.77-0.593950.01130.18-0.60-0.23
0.74-0.64397.50.01210.19-0.64-0.26
0.70-0.674000.01280.20-0.68-0.30
0.64-0.744050.01400.21-0.74-0.36
0.60-0.76407.50.01440.22-0.76-0.40
0.56-0.784100.01470.23-0.78-0.44
0.49-0.794150.01490.23-0.79-0.51
0.45-0.78417.50.01480.23-0.79-0.55
0.42-0.774200.01450.22-0.78-0.59
0.35-0.734250.01370.21-0.73-0.66
0.29-0.674300.01250.20-0.67-0.72
0.26-0.63432.50.01190.18-0.64-0.75
0.23-0.594350.01120.17-0.60-0.77
0.20-0.55437.50.01040.16-0.56-0.80

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 57 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot220360392.5420447.55101K0
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

spot901702353104104905K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 58K call contracts, 64K 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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