Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 15, 1:17 AM ET

JBIO max pain

Spot (delayed)$25
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$17.5-30.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.95±35.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.057 puts / 144 calls
Call wall$17.5largest call OI
Put wall$22.5largest put OI
IV3089.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move

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$20-20.0%6d
Fri, Nov 20$17.5-30.0%97d
Fri, Feb 19$20-20.0%188d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot17.581319243035$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 — 17.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot17.57.512.52025358080
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JBIO 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

spot17.57.512.520253511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot81319243035196%77%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 88.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot7.512.5202535+$1K$1K
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
0.95-0.017.50.00400.01-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.01100.00640.02-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.0112.50.00970.02-0.01-0.09
0.82-0.0217.50.02040.03-0.02-0.17
0.75-0.02200.02770.04-0.02-0.24
0.67-0.0222.50.03390.05-0.02-0.33
0.57-0.02250.03640.05-0.02-0.42
0.43-0.02300.03360.05-0.02-0.57
0.34-0.02350.02860.05-0.02-0.66

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

spot7.512.517.522.530401620
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

spot2.51017.52540441441
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 355 call contracts, 524 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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