Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 7:39 PM ET

NBIS max pain

Spot (delayed)$158.49
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$215+35.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$21.58±13.6% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI0.6523K puts / 36K calls
Call wall$230largest call OI
Put wall$225largest put OI
IV3096.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1.6Mper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$185+16.7%4d
Fri, Nov 6$215+35.7%11d
Fri, Nov 13$195+23.0%18d
Fri, Nov 20$195+23.0%25d
Fri, Nov 27$185+16.7%32d
Fri, Dec 4$180+13.6%39d
Fri, Dec 18$180+13.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$150-5.4%81d
Fri, Feb 19$190+19.9%116d
Fri, Mar 19$200+26.2%144d
Fri, Apr 16$180+13.6%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot215105154203252301350$415M$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 — 215 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot2151051451802152553008K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NBIS open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot2151051451802152553002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot105154203252301350157%84%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 97.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot105145180215255300+$386K−$386K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.91-0.211250.00530.04-0.21-0.09
0.88-0.261300.00680.06-0.26-0.12
0.84-0.311350.00850.07-0.31-0.16
0.79-0.361400.01030.08-0.37-0.21
0.73-0.411450.01200.09-0.41-0.27
0.67-0.451500.01350.10-0.45-0.34
0.59-0.481550.01450.11-0.48-0.41
0.52-0.491600.01500.11-0.49-0.48
0.48-0.48162.50.01510.11-0.49-0.52
0.45-0.481650.01500.11-0.48-0.56
0.38-0.461700.01440.10-0.46-0.63
0.31-0.431750.01340.10-0.43-0.69
0.26-0.391800.01210.09-0.39-0.75
0.21-0.351850.01070.08-0.35-0.80
0.17-0.311900.00940.07-0.31-0.84

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot95152.518021025030511K0
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

spot37013019026038062K62K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 854K call contracts, 805K 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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