Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 11:15 PM ET

INSM max pain

Spot (delayed)$94
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$100+6.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$24±25.5% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.28136 puts / 486 calls
Call wall$120largest call OI
Put wall$105largest put OI
IV3065.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$26Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $115

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, Nov 20$97.5+3.7%25d
Fri, Dec 18$92.5-1.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$110+17.0%81d
Fri, Feb 19$100+6.4%116d
Fri, Mar 19$115+22.3%144d
Fri, May 21$105+11.7%207d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1005080110140170200$3M$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 — 100 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)INSM open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot100508510513516519522
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot508011014017020081%52%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 56.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 1155090110140170200+$9K−$9K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.02600.00420.08-0.02-0.08
0.86-0.03700.00710.12-0.03-0.15
0.81-0.03750.00880.14-0.04-0.19
0.76-0.04800.01040.17-0.04-0.25
0.69-0.04850.01170.18-0.04-0.31
0.63-0.05900.01280.20-0.05-0.38
0.60-0.0592.50.01310.20-0.05-0.41
0.56-0.05950.01340.21-0.05-0.45
0.53-0.0597.50.01350.21-0.05-0.48
0.50-0.051000.01360.21-0.05-0.51
0.44-0.051050.01340.21-0.05-0.58
0.38-0.051100.01290.20-0.05-0.63
0.33-0.051150.01220.19-0.05-0.69
0.29-0.041200.01130.18-0.04-0.73
0.25-0.041250.01040.17-0.04-0.78

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.572.597.514018526013K0
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

spot32.5608512017024017K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 76K call contracts, 39K 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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