Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 24, 11:58 PM ET

LUNR max pain

Spot (delayed)$10.48
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$12+14.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.33±22.2% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.61489 puts / 801 calls
Call wall$11largest call OI
Put wall$12largest put OI
IV3097.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $11

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, Oct 30$13+24.0%5d
Fri, Nov 6$13+24.0%12d
Fri, Nov 13$13+24.0%19d
Fri, Nov 20$13.5+28.8%26d
Fri, Nov 27$12+14.5%33d
Fri, Dec 4$16+52.7%40d
Fri, Dec 18$15+43.1%54d
Fri, Jan 15$20+90.8%82d
Fri, Mar 19$15+43.1%145d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot126912141720$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 — 12 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot1261012.51517.520112112
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LUNR open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot1261012.51517.5205252
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot6912141720205%84%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 1161012.51517.520+$1K−$1K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.0060.02270.00-0.00-0.04
0.92-0.0170.04280.01-0.01-0.08
0.85-0.0180.07030.01-0.01-0.15
0.75-0.0190.09900.01-0.01-0.25
0.69-0.029.50.11110.01-0.02-0.31
0.63-0.02100.12010.01-0.02-0.37
0.57-0.0210.50.12560.01-0.02-0.43
0.51-0.02110.12740.01-0.02-0.50
0.45-0.0211.50.12600.01-0.02-0.56
0.39-0.02120.12190.01-0.02-0.61
0.34-0.0212.50.11580.01-0.02-0.66
0.30-0.02130.10840.01-0.02-0.71
0.26-0.0113.50.10030.01-0.01-0.74
0.22-0.01140.09210.01-0.01-0.78

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 26 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot610.513.516.519.5243K0
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

spot31015.521324327K27K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 161K call contracts, 93K 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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