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

NBIS max pain

Spot (delayed)$158.49
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$185+16.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$36±22.7% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI1.119K puts / 8K calls
Call wall$190largest call OI
Put wall$155largest put OI
IV3096.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$476Kper 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$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

spot18595146197248299350$108M$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 — 185 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot185951401852302753201K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NBIS open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot18595140185230275320619619
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot95146197248299350115%86%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 95.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot95140185230275320+$277K−$277K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.181250.00530.12-0.19-0.17
0.80-0.201300.00600.13-0.21-0.20
0.77-0.221350.00670.14-0.23-0.24
0.73-0.241400.00730.16-0.24-0.28
0.69-0.251450.00780.17-0.26-0.32
0.64-0.261500.00830.18-0.27-0.36
0.60-0.271550.00860.18-0.27-0.41
0.55-0.281600.00890.19-0.28-0.45
0.51-0.281650.00900.19-0.28-0.49
0.47-0.281700.00900.19-0.28-0.54
0.43-0.271750.00890.18-0.27-0.58
0.39-0.261800.00870.18-0.26-0.62
0.35-0.251850.00840.17-0.26-0.66
0.32-0.241900.00800.17-0.24-0.69
0.28-0.231950.00760.16-0.23-0.73

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

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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