Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 3:04 AM ET

KYMR max pain

Spot (delayed)$110.76
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$105-5.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$26.05±23.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.36983 puts / 3K calls
Call wall$140largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV30111.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$252Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $125

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, Nov 20$105-5.2%25d
Fri, Dec 18$105-5.2%53d
Fri, Jan 15$90-18.7%81d
Fri, Feb 19$90-18.7%116d
Fri, Mar 19$105-5.2%144d
Fri, May 21$115+3.8%207d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1054071102133164195$17M$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 — 105 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot10540701001301601951K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KYMR 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

spot105407010013016019588
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot4071102133164195290%100%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 107.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 125406595120145170+$156K−$156K
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
0.89-0.14750.00450.06-0.14-0.11
0.86-0.16800.00550.07-0.16-0.14
0.83-0.17850.00660.08-0.18-0.17
0.79-0.19900.00780.09-0.19-0.21
0.74-0.20950.00910.10-0.21-0.26
0.69-0.221000.01030.11-0.22-0.31
0.64-0.221050.01130.12-0.23-0.37
0.57-0.231100.01210.12-0.23-0.43
0.51-0.231150.01250.12-0.23-0.49
0.45-0.221200.01260.12-0.23-0.55
0.39-0.211250.01230.12-0.22-0.61
0.34-0.201300.01180.11-0.21-0.66
0.29-0.191350.01100.11-0.19-0.71
0.25-0.181400.01020.10-0.18-0.75
0.22-0.161450.00930.09-0.17-0.79

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot40751001251501751K0
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

spot3060901201501801K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 8K call contracts, 6K 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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