Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 15, 7:06 PM ET

LAMR max pain

Spot (delayed)$147.53
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$145-1.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.6±1.8% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.34293 puts / 872 calls
Call wall$155largest call OI
Put wall$130largest put OI
IV3025.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$400Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $145

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$145-1.7%1d
Fri, Nov 20$145-1.7%36d
Fri, Jan 15$130-11.9%92d
Fri, Apr 16$145-1.7%183d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot14580102124146168190$3M$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 — 145 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot14580110130150170190250250
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LAMR open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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, Oct 16

spot145801101301501701902020
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot135141147153159165122%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 14580110130150170190+$175K−$175K
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, Oct 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.081150.00210.00-0.09-0.01
0.98-0.091200.00300.00-0.10-0.02
0.98-0.101250.00440.00-0.11-0.02
0.97-0.121300.00680.01-0.12-0.03
0.96-0.131350.01160.01-0.13-0.04
0.94-0.141400.02420.01-0.15-0.07
0.79-0.391450.08670.02-0.39-0.21
0.20-0.301500.10170.02-0.30-0.81
0.04-0.051550.01960.01-0.07-0.97
0.02-0.051600.00930.00-0.07-0.98
0.02-0.051650.00560.00-0.07-0.98
0.01-0.041700.00380.00-0.07-0.99
0.01-0.041750.00280.00-0.06-0.99
0.01-0.041800.00210.00-0.06-0.99
0.01-0.041850.00170.00-0.06-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1001401551701852004060
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

spot80105130155180210421421
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2K call contracts, 599 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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