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

HUM max pain

Spot (delayed)$413.66
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$460+11.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$54.6±13.2% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI5.95393 puts / 66 calls
Call wall$580largest call OI
Put wall$380largest put OI
IV3050.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$259Kper 1% move

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

spot460255320385450515580$5M$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 — 460 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot460255345375410460520148148
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HUM 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

spot46025534537541046052044
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot25532038545051558091%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 48.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot255345375410460520+$124K−$124K
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
0.76-0.253750.00460.44-0.26-0.25
0.73-0.273800.00490.46-0.27-0.27
0.68-0.293900.00530.50-0.29-0.33
0.65-0.303950.00550.52-0.30-0.36
0.62-0.314000.00560.53-0.31-0.39
0.59-0.314050.00580.54-0.32-0.41
0.56-0.324100.00580.55-0.32-0.45
0.53-0.324150.00590.56-0.32-0.47
0.50-0.324200.00590.56-0.33-0.50
0.36-0.304450.00560.53-0.31-0.65
0.34-0.294500.00540.51-0.30-0.67
0.31-0.284550.00530.50-0.29-0.70
0.29-0.274600.00510.48-0.28-0.72
0.27-0.264650.00490.46-0.27-0.74
0.25-0.254700.00470.44-0.26-0.76

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 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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