Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 3:08 AM ET

LGND max pain

Spot (delayed)$303.53
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$310+2.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$80.75±26.6% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.3354 puts / 166 calls
Call wall$440largest call OI
Put wall$330largest put OI
IV3040.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$28Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $280

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, Nov 20$240-20.9%25d
Fri, Dec 18$300-1.2%53d
Fri, Jan 15$190-37.4%81d
Fri, Feb 19$300-1.2%116d
Fri, May 21$350+15.3%207d
Thu, Jun 17$310+2.1%234d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot310180232284336388440$1M$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 — 310 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot310180280310340370440100100
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LGND open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot31018028031034037044011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot18023228433638844047%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 280180280310340370440+$26K−$26K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.021800.00090.26-0.03-0.05
0.92-0.032000.00130.37-0.04-0.08
0.86-0.042300.00220.56-0.05-0.15
0.69-0.072800.00350.86-0.08-0.32
0.66-0.072900.00360.90-0.08-0.36
0.62-0.083000.00380.93-0.08-0.40
0.58-0.083100.00390.96-0.09-0.44
0.54-0.083200.00400.97-0.09-0.48
0.50-0.083300.00400.98-0.09-0.52
0.47-0.083400.00400.97-0.09-0.56
0.43-0.083500.00390.96-0.09-0.60
0.40-0.083600.00380.95-0.09-0.63
0.37-0.083700.00380.93-0.09-0.67

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 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

spot110175230310380450520
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

spot110150190260340420103103
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 578 call contracts, 456 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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