Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 11, 11:25 AM ET

JOYY max pain

Spot (delayed)$74.88
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$60-19.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.85±17.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.54414 puts / 767 calls
Call wall$70largest call OI
Put wall$50largest put OI
IV3039.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$74Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Aug 12 · 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$65-13.2%10d
Fri, Sep 18$65-13.2%38d
Fri, Nov 20$60-19.9%101d
Fri, Feb 19$50-33.2%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot603045607590105$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot603045607590105207207
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)JOYY 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

spot60304560759010577
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot3045607590105123%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 703045607590105+$27K$27K
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
0.97-0.01400.00350.02-0.01-0.04
0.95-0.01450.00480.03-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.01500.00680.05-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.02550.00980.07-0.02-0.10
0.84-0.02600.01380.09-0.02-0.16
0.76-0.03650.01880.12-0.03-0.23
0.65-0.03700.02340.14-0.03-0.34
0.53-0.03750.02560.15-0.03-0.46
0.41-0.03800.02460.15-0.03-0.58
0.30-0.03850.02170.14-0.03-0.68
0.23-0.02900.01810.12-0.02-0.76
0.17-0.02950.01470.10-0.02-0.81
0.13-0.021000.01180.08-0.01-0.85
0.10-0.011050.00950.07-0.01-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot355570851003590
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

spot3045607590105369369
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2K call contracts, 1K 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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