Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 2:28 PM ET

JBLU max pain

Spot (delayed)$2.85
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$3.5+22.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.68±23.9% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI2.5810K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$3.5largest call OI
Put wall$2largest put OI
IV30132.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$12Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $1.5

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Oct 30$2.5-12.3%3d
Fri, Nov 6$3+5.3%10d
Fri, Nov 13$3.5+22.8%17d
Fri, Nov 20$4+40.4%24d
Fri, Nov 27$2.5-12.3%31d
Fri, Dec 4$2.5-12.3%38d
Fri, Dec 18$4+40.4%52d
Fri, Jan 15$4+40.4%80d
Fri, Mar 19$3+5.3%143d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot3.5124578$2M$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 — 3.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot3.50.523.556.53K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JBLU open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot3.50.523.556.5329329
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot234578448%121%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 132.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 1.512.545.58+$5K−$5K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.000.50.01350.00-0.00-0.02
0.96-0.0110.04060.00-0.01-0.04
0.92-0.011.50.09250.00-0.01-0.08
0.84-0.0120.18620.00-0.01-0.16
0.70-0.012.50.33180.00-0.01-0.29
0.49-0.0130.45260.00-0.01-0.51
0.29-0.013.50.40530.00-0.01-0.71
0.17-0.0140.28840.00-0.01-0.83
0.11-0.014.50.19980.00-0.01-0.89
0.08-0.0050.14280.00-0.00-0.92
0.06-0.005.50.10600.00-0.00-0.94
0.04-0.0060.08140.00-0.00-0.96
0.03-0.006.50.06430.00-0.00-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 15 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot0.523.556.5857K0
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

spot0.52.54.56.58.512450K450K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 806K call contracts, 1.0M 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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