Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 11:40 PM ET

MRVL max pain

Spot (delayed)$234.25
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$250+6.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$28.95±12.4% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.3910K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$240largest call OI
Put wall$230largest put OI
IV3065.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1.5Mper 1% move

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$235+0.3%4d
Fri, Nov 6$260+11.0%11d
Fri, Nov 13$250+6.7%18d
Fri, Nov 20$240+2.5%25d
Fri, Nov 27$280+19.5%32d
Fri, Dec 4$250+6.7%39d
Fri, Dec 18$200-14.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$185-21.0%81d
Fri, Feb 19$240+2.5%116d
Fri, Mar 19$230-1.8%144d
Fri, Apr 16$260+11.0%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot250130182234286338390$103M$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 — 250 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot2501301752202653103601K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MRVL 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

spot250130175220265310360273273
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot130182234286338390103%65%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 68.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot130175220265310360+$540K−$540K
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
0.85-0.242000.00600.12-0.24-0.15
0.82-0.272050.00700.14-0.28-0.18
0.78-0.302100.00800.15-0.31-0.22
0.73-0.332150.00890.17-0.34-0.27
0.69-0.362200.00970.18-0.36-0.32
0.63-0.382250.01040.20-0.38-0.37
0.58-0.392300.01090.20-0.39-0.42
0.52-0.392350.01120.21-0.40-0.48
0.47-0.392400.01120.21-0.39-0.54
0.41-0.382450.01100.20-0.38-0.59
0.36-0.362500.01070.20-0.36-0.64
0.31-0.342550.01010.18-0.34-0.69
0.27-0.322600.00940.17-0.32-0.74
0.23-0.292650.00860.16-0.29-0.78
0.19-0.262700.00780.14-0.26-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 49 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1251852202502803355K0
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

spot2572.513019526037064K64K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 651K call contracts, 901K 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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