Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 11:06 PM ET

MBLY max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.57
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$4-39.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.78±11.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.42662 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$7.5largest call OI
Put wall$5.5largest put OI
IV3066.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$3Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5.5

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$3-54.3%4d
Fri, Nov 6$6.5-1.1%11d
Fri, Nov 13$4-39.1%18d
Fri, Nov 20$10+52.2%25d
Fri, Nov 27$2-69.6%32d
Fri, Dec 18$7+6.5%53d
Fri, Jan 15$10+52.2%81d
Fri, Feb 19$8+21.8%116d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot4257101215$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 — 4 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot424.5791113560560
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MBLY 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

spot424.5791113130130
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot679101213245%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 61.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 5.524.5791113+$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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.0120.01020.00-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.0130.02190.00-0.01-0.03
0.96-0.013.50.03220.00-0.01-0.04
0.95-0.0140.04830.00-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.014.50.07420.00-0.01-0.07
0.83-0.015.50.18560.00-0.01-0.17
0.72-0.0160.27720.01-0.01-0.28
0.56-0.016.50.34270.01-0.01-0.45
0.40-0.0170.32960.01-0.01-0.61
0.27-0.017.50.26960.01-0.01-0.74
0.19-0.0180.20620.00-0.01-0.82
0.13-0.018.50.15460.00-0.01-0.88
0.09-0.0190.11560.00-0.01-0.92
0.07-0.009.50.08690.00-0.01-0.94
0.05-0.00100.06580.00-0.00-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot24.56.58.510.512.51K0
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

spot15.5912.5183033K33K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 166K call contracts, 85K 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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