Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 26, 2:47 AM ET

KPTI max pain

Spot (delayed)$1.66
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$2.5+50.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1±60.2% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.282K puts / 6K calls
Call wall$2.5largest call OI
Put wall$7.5largest put OI
IV30171.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $2.5

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Oct 16$1-39.8%20d
Fri, Nov 20$2.5+50.6%55d
Fri, Jan 15$2.5+50.6%111d
Fri, Feb 19$2.5+50.6%146d
Fri, May 21$1-39.8%237d
Fri, Jan 21$5+201.2%482d
Fri, Jan 19$1.5-9.6%846d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot2.5147111418$6M$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 — 2.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot2.50.51.52.57.512.517.53K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KPTI 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

spot2.50.51.52.57.512.517.51010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot147111418535%188%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 210.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 2.50.51.52.57.512.517.5+$2K−$2K
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
0.97-0.000.50.05880.00-0.00-0.04
0.86-0.0010.20860.00-0.00-0.15
0.69-0.001.50.33630.00-0.00-0.33
0.54-0.0020.34920.00-0.00-0.48
0.44-0.002.50.32290.00-0.00-0.58
0.23-0.0050.20430.00-0.00-0.79
0.15-0.007.50.14750.00-0.00-0.87
0.12-0.00100.11520.00-0.00-0.91
0.09-0.0012.50.09440.00-0.00-0.94
0.08-0.00150.07980.00-0.00-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 strikes around the money — all 11 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot12510152016K0
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

spot0.51.52.57.512.517.516K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 28K call contracts, 16K 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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