Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 22, 11:11 PM ET

IBRX max pain

Spot (delayed)$8.32
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$8-3.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.3±15.6% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI0.25616 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$8largest call OI
Put wall$8.5largest put OI
IV3095.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$19Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 23$9+8.1%today
Fri, Oct 30$9+8.1%7d
Fri, Nov 6$8-3.9%14d
Fri, Nov 13$9.5+14.1%21d
Fri, Nov 20$8-3.9%28d
Fri, Nov 27$8.5+2.1%35d
Fri, Dec 18$9+8.1%56d
Fri, Jan 15$7.5-9.9%84d
Fri, Mar 19$6-27.9%147d
Fri, Apr 16$3-64.0%175d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8358101315$1M$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 — 8 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot8368101215778778
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IBRX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot8368101215247247
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot579111315370%83%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 95.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot368101215+$12K−$12K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.0150.03270.00-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.015.50.04750.00-0.01-0.05
0.92-0.0160.06980.00-0.01-0.08
0.89-0.016.50.10340.00-0.01-0.11
0.83-0.0170.15180.00-0.01-0.17
0.74-0.027.50.21140.01-0.02-0.26
0.62-0.0280.25960.01-0.02-0.38
0.49-0.028.50.26830.01-0.02-0.51
0.37-0.0290.24260.01-0.02-0.63
0.28-0.029.50.20510.01-0.02-0.71
0.22-0.02100.16910.01-0.02-0.78
0.17-0.0110.50.13880.00-0.01-0.82
0.14-0.01110.11430.00-0.01-0.86
0.11-0.0111.50.09480.00-0.01-0.89
0.09-0.01120.07920.00-0.01-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot357911136K0
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

spot0.547.51114.518106K106K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 465K call contracts, 189K 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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