Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 12, 12:46 PM ET

NFLX max pain

Spot (delayed)$71.09
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$67-5.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.3±10.3% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.492K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$67largest call OI
Put wall$58largest put OI
IV3043.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$452Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $67
Earnings · expectedTue, Oct 20usually after the close

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$71-0.1%4d
Fri, Oct 23$70-1.5%11d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Oct 20)
Fri, Oct 30$70-1.5%18d
Fri, Nov 6$69-2.9%25d
Fri, Nov 13$67-5.8%32d
Fri, Nov 20$75+5.5%39d
Fri, Nov 27$68-4.3%46d
Fri, Dec 18$77+8.3%67d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot6735557595115135$29M$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 — 67 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot6735606774811251K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NFLX 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

spot673560677481125319319
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot35557595115135142%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 673560677481125+$205K−$205K
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
0.80-0.04640.03140.06-0.04-0.21
0.76-0.04650.03430.07-0.04-0.24
0.72-0.04660.03690.07-0.04-0.28
0.68-0.05670.03910.08-0.05-0.32
0.64-0.05680.04080.08-0.05-0.37
0.59-0.05690.04210.09-0.05-0.41
0.55-0.05700.04290.09-0.05-0.45
0.51-0.05710.04320.09-0.05-0.50
0.47-0.05720.04300.09-0.05-0.54
0.43-0.05730.04240.09-0.05-0.58
0.39-0.05740.04130.08-0.05-0.62
0.35-0.05750.03980.08-0.05-0.66
0.31-0.05760.03810.08-0.05-0.70
0.28-0.04770.03600.07-0.05-0.73
0.25-0.04780.03380.07-0.04-0.76

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 38 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot356372808811050K0
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

spot0.540677896130227K227K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2.7M call contracts, 2.4M 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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