Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 6:15 PM ET

LYFT max pain

Spot (delayed)$16.76
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$16.5-1.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.23±13.3% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.32532 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$19largest call OI
Put wall$15largest put OI
IV3063.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$31Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $18

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$17+1.4%4d
Fri, Nov 6$16-4.5%11d
Fri, Nov 13$16.5-1.6%18d
Fri, Nov 20$17+1.4%25d
Fri, Nov 27$16-4.5%32d
Fri, Dec 4$16-4.5%39d
Fri, Dec 18$17+1.4%53d
Fri, Jan 15$15-10.5%81d
Fri, Mar 19$15-10.5%144d
Fri, Apr 16$17+1.4%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot16.5131517182022$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 — 16.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot16.51314.51617.51920.5305305
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LYFT open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot16.51314.51617.51920.5102102
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot131517182022142%70%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 73.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 181314.51617.51920.5+$10K−$10K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.90-0.0113.50.05650.01-0.01-0.10
0.87-0.02140.07150.01-0.02-0.13
0.82-0.0214.50.08800.01-0.02-0.17
0.77-0.02150.10420.01-0.02-0.23
0.71-0.0315.50.11880.01-0.03-0.29
0.65-0.03160.13060.01-0.03-0.35
0.58-0.0316.50.13850.01-0.03-0.42
0.51-0.03170.14170.01-0.03-0.49
0.44-0.0317.50.14020.01-0.03-0.56
0.38-0.03180.13440.01-0.03-0.63
0.32-0.0318.50.12550.01-0.03-0.69
0.26-0.03190.11460.01-0.03-0.74
0.22-0.0219.50.10270.01-0.02-0.79
0.18-0.02200.09050.01-0.02-0.82
0.15-0.0220.50.07880.01-0.02-0.86

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot51113.51618.5215K0
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

spot310.514.518.522.52745K45K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 338K call contracts, 281K 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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