Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 22, 2:39 AM ET

JBHT max pain

Spot (delayed)$228.59
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$240+5.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$35.7±15.6% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.40311 puts / 785 calls
Call wall$300largest call OI
Put wall$240largest put OI
IV3032.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$112Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $185

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$240+5.0%29d
Fri, Dec 18$240+5.0%57d
Fri, Jan 15$200-12.5%85d
Fri, Feb 19$240+5.0%120d
Fri, May 21$230+0.6%211d
Fri, Dec 17$220-3.8%421d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot240150202254306358410$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 — 240 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JBHT 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

spot2401501752102603103606868
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot15020225430635841053%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 34.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 185150175210260310360+$30K−$30K
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
0.92-0.021750.00310.20-0.03-0.08
0.90-0.021800.00360.24-0.04-0.10
0.88-0.031850.00420.27-0.04-0.13
0.85-0.031900.00490.31-0.04-0.15
0.79-0.052000.00620.38-0.06-0.21
0.72-0.062100.00740.44-0.06-0.28
0.64-0.062200.00830.49-0.07-0.37
0.55-0.072300.00890.52-0.07-0.46
0.46-0.072400.00900.52-0.07-0.55
0.38-0.072500.00870.50-0.07-0.64
0.30-0.062600.00800.46-0.06-0.72
0.24-0.052700.00710.41-0.05-0.79
0.18-0.052800.00610.35-0.04-0.85
0.14-0.042900.00510.29-0.03-0.90
0.10-0.033000.00410.24-0.01-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot751251652102903708500
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

spot65110155200290380924924
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 5K 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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