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

HUM max pain

Spot (delayed)$413.66
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$420+1.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$47.65±11.5% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.74795 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$450largest call OI
Put wall$360largest put OI
IV3050.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$510Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $290

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$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

spot420235300365430495560$12M$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 — 420 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot420235320365405445490576576
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HUM 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

spot420235320365405445490290290
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot235300365430495560107%49%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 290235320365405450500+$591K−$591K
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
0.75-0.333800.00540.36-0.33-0.25
0.72-0.353850.00580.39-0.35-0.28
0.69-0.373900.00610.41-0.37-0.32
0.66-0.393950.00630.42-0.39-0.35
0.62-0.404000.00650.43-0.40-0.38
0.59-0.414050.00670.45-0.41-0.41
0.56-0.414100.00680.45-0.42-0.45
0.52-0.424150.00680.46-0.42-0.48
0.49-0.424200.00680.46-0.42-0.52
0.45-0.414250.00680.45-0.42-0.55
0.42-0.414300.00670.45-0.41-0.58
0.39-0.404350.00660.44-0.40-0.61
0.36-0.394400.00640.43-0.39-0.65
0.33-0.384450.00620.41-0.38-0.68
0.30-0.364500.00600.40-0.37-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 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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