Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 12:48 AM ET

MANH max pain

Spot (delayed)$222.71
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$210-5.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$31.05±13.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.4931 puts / 63 calls
Call wall$280largest call OI
Put wall$145largest put OI
IV3053.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$18Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $210

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 16$210-5.7%3d
Fri, Nov 20$210-5.7%38d
Fri, Jan 15$180-19.2%94d
Fri, Apr 16$190-14.7%185d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot210135170205240275310$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 — 210 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot2101351701952202503102323
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MANH 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

spot2101351701952202503102525
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot13517020524027531083%52%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 54.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 210135170200230270+$6K−$6K
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
0.94-0.071650.00260.09-0.07-0.06
0.92-0.081700.00310.10-0.09-0.08
0.89-0.111800.00440.14-0.11-0.12
0.83-0.131900.00600.18-0.14-0.17
0.80-0.151950.00680.20-0.15-0.20
0.76-0.162000.00760.22-0.17-0.24
0.67-0.182100.00910.26-0.19-0.33
0.57-0.202200.01010.28-0.20-0.43
0.47-0.202300.01030.29-0.20-0.53
0.38-0.192400.00980.27-0.19-0.63
0.29-0.172500.00880.25-0.17-0.71
0.17-0.132700.00630.18-0.13-0.84
0.13-0.112800.00510.15-0.11-0.88
0.06-0.063100.00260.08-0.06-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 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

spot651351702002603201880
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

spot65100135170210280511511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 990 call contracts, 1K 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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