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

HUM max pain

Spot (delayed)$413.66
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$240-42.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$75.45±18.2% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI1.0922K puts / 20K calls
Call wall$200largest call OI
Put wall$220largest put OI
IV3050.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $90

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 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

spot240110204298392486580$544M$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 — 240 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot2401101752303103904704K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HUM open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot2401101752303103904701313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot110204298392486580142%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 90110175230310390470+$791K−$791K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.133400.00260.51-0.13-0.17
0.81-0.143500.00290.57-0.15-0.20
0.77-0.163600.00320.62-0.16-0.23
0.73-0.173700.00340.68-0.17-0.27
0.70-0.183800.00370.72-0.18-0.31
0.66-0.193900.00390.76-0.19-0.35
0.61-0.204000.00400.79-0.20-0.39
0.57-0.204100.00420.81-0.21-0.43
0.53-0.204200.00420.82-0.21-0.47
0.49-0.214300.00420.82-0.21-0.52
0.45-0.204400.00420.81-0.21-0.56
0.41-0.204500.00410.80-0.21-0.60
0.38-0.204600.00400.78-0.20-0.64
0.34-0.194700.00390.76-0.20-0.67
0.31-0.184800.00370.72-0.19-0.70

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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