Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 23, 11:54 PM ET

JOBY max pain

Spot (delayed)$4.76
Max pain · Fri, Mar 19$6+26.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.56±32.8% by Fri, Mar 19
Put/Call OI0.269K puts / 34K calls
Call wall$30largest call OI
Put wall$5largest put OI
IV3070.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$33Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $3

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, Oct 30$5+5.0%6d
Fri, Nov 6$5+5.0%13d
Fri, Nov 13$5+5.0%20d
Fri, Nov 20$6+26.0%27d
Fri, Nov 27$5+5.0%34d
Fri, Dec 4$6.5+36.6%41d
Fri, Dec 18$5+5.0%55d
Fri, Jan 15$6+26.0%83d
Fri, Mar 19$6+26.0%146d
Fri, Apr 16$6+26.0%174d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot62813192430$53M$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 — 6 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Mar 19

spot6261014225K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JOBY open contracts per strike for Fri, Mar 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, Mar 19

spot626101422102102
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Mar 19

spot2813192430174%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 63.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Mar 19

spotflip 326101422+$12K−$12K
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, Mar 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.0020.02540.00-0.00-0.03
0.89-0.0030.08120.01-0.00-0.11
0.74-0.0040.15270.01-0.00-0.26
0.56-0.0050.18980.01-0.00-0.45
0.40-0.0060.18190.01-0.00-0.61
0.29-0.0070.15480.01-0.00-0.73
0.21-0.0080.12660.01-0.00-0.81
0.16-0.0090.10300.01-0.00-0.87
0.13-0.00100.08460.01-0.00-0.91
0.10-0.00110.07040.01-0.00-0.94
0.09-0.00120.05940.01-0.00-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 11 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot0.53579113K0
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

spot0.547.511173266K66K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 378K call contracts, 105K 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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