Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:01 AM ET

INTU max pain

Spot (delayed)$343.75
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$317.5-7.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.65±7.5% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI1.203K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$355largest call OI
Put wall$310largest put OI
IV3052.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $355

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 30$320-6.9%4d
Fri, Nov 6$317.5-7.6%11d
Fri, Nov 13$320-6.9%18d
Fri, Nov 20$300-12.7%25d
Fri, Nov 27$325-5.5%32d
Fri, Dec 4$305-11.3%39d
Fri, Dec 18$320-6.9%53d
Fri, Jan 15$390+13.5%81d
Fri, Mar 19$350+1.8%144d
Fri, Apr 16$310-9.8%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot317.5170223276329382435$26M$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 — 317.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot317.5170250295322.5347.53851K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)INTU 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

spot317.5170250295322.5347.5385240240
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot200247294341388435175%43%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spotflip 355225270305327.5350385+$1.4M−$1.4M
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
0.74-0.403250.00960.22-0.40-0.27
0.71-0.42327.50.01010.23-0.42-0.29
0.68-0.433300.01050.24-0.44-0.32
0.66-0.45332.50.01090.25-0.45-0.35
0.63-0.463350.01130.26-0.46-0.38
0.60-0.47337.50.01160.26-0.47-0.41
0.57-0.473400.01180.27-0.48-0.43
0.54-0.48342.50.01190.27-0.48-0.46
0.51-0.483450.01200.27-0.48-0.49
0.48-0.48347.50.01200.27-0.48-0.53
0.45-0.473500.01190.27-0.48-0.56
0.42-0.47352.50.01180.26-0.47-0.58
0.40-0.463550.01160.26-0.47-0.61
0.37-0.45357.50.01130.25-0.46-0.64
0.34-0.443600.01100.25-0.45-0.67

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot225280312.5340367.54152K0
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

spot15023532039051068010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 86K call contracts, 79K 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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