Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 13, 9:16 PM ET

ITRN max pain

Spot (delayed)$53.69
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$55+2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.13±13.3% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.20225 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$55largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$99Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Aug 21$50-6.9%8d
Fri, Sep 18$60+11.8%36d
Fri, Nov 20$55+2.4%99d
Fri, Feb 19$60+11.8%190d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot55253851647790$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 — 55 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot552545607590864864
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ITRN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

spot55254560759033
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot35465768799085%21%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 602545607590+$92K$92K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99250.00180.01-0.00-0.02
0.96-0.00350.00630.03-0.01-0.04
0.93-0.01400.01170.04-0.01-0.08
0.86-0.01450.02200.06-0.01-0.15
0.73-0.01500.03770.10-0.02-0.29
0.51-0.02550.04590.11-0.02-0.52
0.33-0.02600.03780.10-0.02-0.71
0.22-0.02650.02760.08-0.01-0.81
0.16-0.01700.02020.07-0.01-0.88
0.12-0.01750.01530.06-0.01-0.91
0.09-0.01800.01190.05-0.01-0.94
0.07-0.01850.00950.04-0.01-0.96
0.06-0.01900.00770.03-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2545556575859380
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

spot22.53550658095948948
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2K call contracts, 431 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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