Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 6:59 PM ET

HUT max pain

Spot (delayed)$64.05
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$84+31.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.83±20.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI2.372K puts / 866 calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV30107.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$114Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $30

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 30$78+21.8%4d
Fri, Nov 6$81+26.5%11d
Fri, Nov 13$84+31.1%18d
Fri, Nov 20$75+17.1%25d
Fri, Nov 27$80+24.9%32d
Fri, Dec 4$86+34.3%39d
Fri, Dec 18$80+24.9%53d
Fri, Jan 15$50-21.9%81d
Fri, Mar 19$85+32.7%144d
Fri, Apr 16$70+9.3%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8425487194117140$10M$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 — 84 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot842564748494115269269
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HUT 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

spot8425647484941155959
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot25487194117140306%100%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 112.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 302564748494115+$24K−$24K
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
0.91-0.09450.00850.02-0.09-0.09
0.85-0.12500.01280.03-0.12-0.15
0.77-0.15550.01770.04-0.15-0.24
0.66-0.17600.02190.05-0.17-0.35
0.64-0.17610.02250.05-0.18-0.37
0.61-0.18620.02310.06-0.18-0.39
0.59-0.18630.02360.06-0.18-0.42
0.56-0.18640.02400.06-0.18-0.44
0.54-0.18650.02430.06-0.18-0.47
0.52-0.18660.02450.06-0.18-0.49
0.49-0.18670.02460.06-0.18-0.51
0.47-0.18680.02460.06-0.18-0.54
0.44-0.18690.02450.06-0.18-0.56
0.42-0.17700.02430.06-0.17-0.58
0.40-0.17710.02400.06-0.17-0.61

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 55 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot30667788991144K0
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

spot340658512517538K38K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 272K call contracts, 105K 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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